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Canada demands U.S. end right-to-work laws as part of NAFTA renegotiation
americanthinker.com ^ | 9/5/2017 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 09/05/2017 6:48:02 AM PDT by rktman

Canadian negotiators are demanding the United States roll back so-called "right to work" laws – accused of gutting unions in some U.S. states by starving them of money – as part of the renegotiation of the North American free-trade agreement. The request is part of a push by Ottawa to get the U.S. and Mexico to adopt higher labour standards under the deal

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Humor
KEYWORDS: canada; chrystiafreeland; justintrudeau; lesdumbasses; nafta; righttowork
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To: rktman

Get bent.


41 posted on 09/05/2017 10:27:40 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Durus

A lot (most maybe) haven’t really studied just how much power a treaty can contain. Depends on whose agenda things are placed in it.


42 posted on 09/05/2017 10:28:53 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Note to Tradeau - Right to works laws in the U.S. are not going to be set by Canada, or any other U.S. trading partner. If you want NAFTA to be put in the grave due to that matter, go ahead; pull that trigger, make our day.


43 posted on 09/05/2017 10:48:50 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: mewzilla

Bet you we write it into the new agreement to happen at some point down the road. I hope I am wrong but the US bends over backwards to screw the hell out of Americans in any treaty with a foreign power. The American people are the last thing on their minds.


44 posted on 09/05/2017 11:03:27 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: antidemoncrat

This is why we need a border tax.


45 posted on 09/05/2017 11:07:09 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: rktman; All
Thank you for referencing that article rktman. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to make right-to-work laws. So by targeting 10th Amendment-based right-to-work laws, Canada is naively pushing for the feds to steal and exercise state powers, Canada inadvertently helping to unconstitutionally expand the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s powers by doing so imo.

"With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole." --Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.

That being said, the states need to amend the Constitution to require kings, prime ministers and ambassadors to pass a basic USA constitutional law test, such a test emphasizing the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, before actually being allowed to work with the USA.

Foreign rulers and diplomats would basically have to know the following material to pass the test.


46 posted on 09/05/2017 11:28:00 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: ichabod1

Trump should tell Le Petit Trudeau that he’ll end right-to-work in Michigan and Indiana as soon as Trudeau ends the use of French in Quebec. Then maybe the little snerd will get the message.


47 posted on 09/05/2017 11:32:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Mariner

Good luck without Canadian oil, FRiend...

You are aware that you get most of your imported oil from up here, right?

Oh, and guess who the US’s single largest market is, hmmm?

Don’t let the infantile ramblings of a socialists’ son get your skivvies in a knot. There are some adults up here that know what’s what. Read Trump’s “Art of the Deal” to understand where the Cdn gov’t’s strategy comes from, it’s a pretty standard ploy when entering negotiations.


48 posted on 09/05/2017 2:18:19 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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49 posted on 09/05/2017 2:36:25 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Don W

The US consumes 10.5mil bbl per day.

We produce about 12mil bbl per day.

Canada exports about 1.5mil bbl per day to the US.

I see no issue on oil and believe we could cut those imports without severe impact to the US. The same goes for lumber and paper products.

But where we’re really dependent is lithium for our car batteries. Ah heck, we can do without that too.

Back to my original point: Everything that is to be gained or lost, by any and all parties, is access to the US market. Everything else is noise.


50 posted on 09/05/2017 3:45:22 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: rktman

Sad that Canada might fear the spread of right-to-work laws.


51 posted on 09/05/2017 8:06:08 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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