The trade conundrum

How do you strengthen economies without letting corporations run the world?

Then-prime minister Stephen Harper and European Commission president José Manuel Barroso shake hands in Brussels after announcing an ‘agreement in principle’ on CETA, Oct. 18, 2013. The deal has yet to be ratified. PMO photograph by Jason Ransom

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

October 26, 2016

OTTAWA—On Oct. 18, 2013, reporters in Ottawa were summoned to the Foreign Affairs building at 6 a.m. to get a look at some of the details of the free trade pact with the European Union that Stephen Harper, the prime minister at the time, was announcing to great fanfare in Brussels, where it was ...

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