HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: North American Free Trade Agreement, Petro-Canada, Canadian Alliance
24 Mar 2017
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Neoliberal shift: away from welfare state toward fiscal restraint and retraction, away from economic nationalism toward trade liberalization and privatization. Key points: neoliberalism, stephen harper, canadian alliance party, progressive conservative party, meech lake accord, reform party of canada, preston manning, 1987 western assembly on canada"s economic and political future (cid:498)the west wants in(cid:499) Neoliberalism in canada: confidence in market to allocate resources, trade liberalization. Agreed should be non-interventionist: primacy of individual, subordination of social justice, labour flexibility, private provision of services and infrastructure. Example: highway 407: air canada, petro canada. Canadian government as concerned it had little control over its oil and gas sector: 1989: canada-us free trade agreement. Argument that can business was to small to compete with american ones. Issue was highly controversial: neoliberal policies = not conservative policies, 1994: north american free trade agreement, 1995: world trade organization. To establish global free trade: 1995: canada health and social transfer act.
