‘Free trade’ has come to mean powerful interests get whatever they want

By Yves Engler · August 8, 2017 “Free trade” has become a euphemism for “whatever power wants,” no matter how tangentially tied to transferring goods across international borders. In an extreme example, Ottawa recently said its Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Israel trumps Canada’s Food and Drugs Act since accurately labelling two wines might undermine a half-century […]