Maxime Bernier Quotes
I think it is not important to have the free trade agreement with China.
Bernier, Maxime. Conservative Party of Canada Leadership Debate. 26 May 2017, Vancouver. Debate.
It was a classic economic protectionist practice to for an imperial nation to sell manufactured goods to its colonies, but not to allow the colonies to sell high labor value goods back to the mother country. The early American colonies were victims of this, and Brandgee was the leader of the protectionist wing of the Republican party. See {640519} for William Howard Taft’s opinion of him.
Democratic politicians of that era mostly opposed free trade because the experience ever since NAFTA showed that many manufacturing jobs were lost in the United States although many new jobs were created but few of these were good paying jobs that Americans with limited educations could perform as they were able to with manufacturing jobs. And during that period, the requirements for fair trade and foreign workers rights have been very poorly enforced. The Democrats split between those who thought that new trade treaties could be negotiated and enforced, correcting the problems of the past, and those who did not believe that such proper free trade was very likely.
Maxime Bernier PC is a Canadian businessman, lawyer and politician who served as a cabinet minister of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and as Member of Parliament (MP) for Beauce from 2006 to 2019. He is the founder and current leader of the People's Party of Canada (PPC).