"Free" trade with China?

Thanks to columnist Lawrence Martin for his column: “Why no debate of the China investment pact?” (Globe and Mail, October 23)  The old problem is that the Canadian mentality is still encumbered by colonialism: first Britain, then the USA, next China.  The other problem pertains to the nature of Harper’s rule.  If we look to Karl Popper on Plato, Canadians should be asking themselves the question: “What if it is the will of the people that they should not rule, but a tyrant instead?”[1]  But Canadians are not fond of asking difficult questions.  Neither is the Globe.

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[1]  Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies (New York: Routledge Classics, 2011), p. 117.