scholarly journals Emerging Visions of Another world? Tensions and Collaboration at the Quebec Social Forum

2010 ◽  
pp. 29-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascale Dufour ◽  
Janet Conway
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Organizing Process

The Quebec Social Forum (QSF) took place 23-26 August 2007 in Montreal. It attracted about 5000 people from across Quebec. Both organizers and observers viewed the event as an unqualified success. In this article, we seek to describe and document this historic gathering and to understand it in its Quebec context, against the larger organizing process which produced it. We also situate the Social Forum, both as event and process, within the longer history of social mobilization in Quebec. Historicizing the Social Forum in this way helps us interpret its cleavages and conflicts more adequately and apprehend its larger significance. We argue that the conflicts that have plagued the organizing of the Quebec Social Forum are a reprise of those that appeared in the movement in the late 1990s and came to a head in the 2001 massive demonstrations against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas in Quebec City. The chasm then was widely perceived as one over tactics but we argue, then and now, it is more substantive than that. It is about the clash of profoundly different ethics, practices and theories of democracy and, beneath them, different horizons of hope and visions of transformation. The organizing of the Social Forum is the occasion for this debate, which may say something about the significance of the Social Forum more generally and the challenge it poses to established cultures and practices of politics on the left. The cleavage is generational but not only or simply. It signals a struggle and transition but the outcomes are not yet clear and are certainly not pre-ordained.

scholarly journals Reflections on the Struggle Against the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (TFA), 30 Years Later

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Hurl ◽  
Benjamin Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
The Past ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Events

The implementation of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) in January 1989 marked a decisive moment in the rise of neoliberalism as a political project in Canada. While the left, and socialist political economists in particular, played a central role in galvanizing the agreement and contributed in no small part to the demise of the Conservative government in 1993, the free trade agenda continued to move forward through the 1990s. This Special Issue revisits the history of struggles against free trade in Canada with two aims in mind: first to remember the coalitions through which opposition was organized, the mobilization of socialist critiques by activists and intellectuals, and the key events leading up to the adoption of the agreement. Second, drawing from this history to make sense of how things have changed over the past 30 years, as right-wing nationalists have increasingly taken the lead in opposing free trade, while neoliberals have sought to rebrand their project as ‘progressive’.  How can those on the left effectively confront the project of free trade today while at the same time challenging both far-right nationalism and neoliberal globalization?

scholarly journals Correction: Patents, pills and politics: the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Ken Harvey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Patent Protection ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Pharmaceutical Products ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

Re: ?Patents, pills and politics: the Australia? United States Free Trade Agreement and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme?, by Ken Harvey, (Aust Health Rev 2004, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 218-226). Under the heading ?A brief history of patent law relevant to pharmaceuticals?, in the second paragraph, the second sentence was: ?Before TRIPS, many developing countries provided no patent protection on pharmaceutical products, or they recognised patents on products but not process?. The corrected version should be ?. . .process but not products?.

scholarly journals Patents, pills and politics: the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Harvey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
History Of ◽  
Innovative Drugs ◽  
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

There is tension between the need of the pharmaceutical innovator for intellectual property protection and the need of society for equitable and affordable access to innovative drugs. The recent Australia?United States Free Trade Agreement provides a nice illustration of this interplay between patents, pills and politics. This article provides a brief history of patent law as applied to pharmaceuticals, describes how the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme got caught up in AUSFTA negotiations, analyses the clauses that are likely to impact upon the PBS and describes the political process that reviewed and ultimately amended the AUSFTA.

scholarly journals The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and Canada's Agri-Food Industries

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan M. Rugman ◽  
Andrew Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Food And Beverage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Statistics Canada

The food processing industry is Canada's second-largest manufacturing industry. It employed 226,579 people in 1986, and shipments were valued at CDN $47 billion, or 15 percent of the value of total manufactured output that year. More significantly, the food and beverage industries together ranked highest among all manufacturing industries in terms of value added, at CDN $15 billion or approximately 14 percent of total value added in Canadian manufacturing industries in 1986 (Statistics Canada). Given the high degree of competition in this industry in the United States, the history of “comfortable” competition in the food industry in Canada, and the significant contribution of this industry to the Canadian economy, it becomes important to look more carefully at how this industry has been and will be affected by the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

scholarly journals Vietnam’s Meat Import Market Under Impacts Of The European -Vietnam Free Trade Agreement And Quality Management Demand

Management ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-117
Author(s):  
Doan Nguyen Minh ◽  
Le Thi Viet Nga ◽  
Dinh Tran Ngoc Huy ◽  
Pham Minh Dat
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Good Food

Abstract The impact of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on commercial business of the member could be assessed by the potential and tangible effects. This paper is adopted by Partial equilibrium theory and SMART tool to measure the impact of EVFTA on the Vietnamese meat import (HS code 02). The result of this model is claimed that EVFTA has a huge impact on boosting the meat import from EU to Vietnam. However, the value of import in this category from European nations in each country and good fluctuated significantly. This study also proposes some measures for domestic businesses and the government to ensure the benefits on Vietnam’s livestock industry. Last but not least, meat quality management is one of vital issues under EFVTA and global competitiveness to meet higher expectation of consumers. Good food (meat) manufacturing practices need to be applied. That is the social contribution value of this paper.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Kay ◽  
R. L. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Democratic Practices ◽  
Trade Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter situates the book’s hook in the backlash against globalization in 2016 and suggests that understanding it requires examining a free trade agreement, NAFTA, negotiated in the early 1990s. It lays out the book’s argument about how contentious trade politics and policies emerged and developed during NAFTA’s negotiation, and how they continued to affect subsequent trade battles, reinforcing resentment among anti-trade activists, including many working class voters. It also examines the relationship between state institutions and democratic practices as it relates to NAFTA and more generally to other policies. The chapter then gives a brief history of NAFTA, and moves into a discussion of the methods, and its contribution to the extant literature.

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