TILMA vs. City Hall

City For Sale?

WITH TILMA, PROFIT IS KING—AND THE KING IS NO FAN OF DEMOCRACY

by Chris Kirkland
Planet S
June 7, 2007

In a recent editorial urging the province to sign on to the Trade, Investment, and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA), Saskatoon’s CanWest daily derided critics of the deal as “the usual anti-trade and protectionist suspects.” You know, the type of nasty folks who love to use “scare tactics.”

Well, I’ve never met Theresa Dust, Saskatoon’s City Solicitor. Nor, for that matter, have I ever met Sean McEachern, a policy analyst for the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA). I’m fairly sure, however, that neither the City of Saskatoon administration nor SUMA are organizations rife with “anti-trade and protectionist suspects,” determined to do everything in their power to destroy capitalism.

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