Tuesday, February 09, 2010

A little light reading

Scott Sinclair's CCPA report on the painfully unbalanced Buy American deal is definitely worth a look in general. But let's make the analysis a bit more interesting.

Sinclair notes that Canada's commitments under the deal don't yet seem to include having municipalities sign onto WTO procurement standards - and that the countries have agreed to carry out more discussions next year. So knowing that the Harper Cons were happy to trade access to 2 years of its own stimulus spending plus provincial procurement rights in perpetuity for 11 days' access to only part of the U.S.' stimulus program, who's up for a betting pool as to how little Canada will get when it trades away those ongoing municipal procurement rights?

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