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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Get bent.
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.
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.
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.
This is why we need a border tax.
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.
Article V: The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make many laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
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.
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.
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.
Sad that Canada might fear the spread of right-to-work laws.
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