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Conservative:
The plan
A Conservative government will:
• Take aggressive action to strengthen the Canadian economic union.
• Defend Canada’s primary producers against repeated and unfounded international
trade challenges.
• Explore the possibility of appointing special envoys between Canada and the United States to chart a
course for the future of NAFTA and achieve a resolution of the softwood lumber dispute in accordance
with Canadian and American legal rights and obligations.
• Reassert Canada’s traditional leadership in negotiating the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
• Create an investment, regulatory, and security environment for our western ports to grow and flourish.
• Explore the possibility of free-trade negotiations with Canada’s democratic and economic partners in the
Asia-Pacific, Japan, and India.
Liberal:
While we cannot anticipate every contingency that may arise in the years ahead, we can, and we
must, prepare for demographic change in Canada, and for the new world that is emerging with
the rise of China, India, Brazil,Russia and others as major new actors on the world stage.Preparing
Canada to prosper in the face of these forces has been at the core of much of what the Paul Martin
government has already begun and what we are seeking to achieve as we go forward.
Today, the United States accounts for more than 20% of the world economy and is the
only superpower. But Europe has now become a united and affluent market of some
450 million people. And Asia – already a technological and export powerhouse – is
poised to be the global growth leader for decades to come as China and India become
economic juggernauts.
But Canada cannot afford to have all its eggs in one basket.We need to reach out to
seize vast new opportunities in China, India,Latin America and elsewhere.These huge emerging
markets include a rapidly growing middle class – potential new consumers of Canadian beef
and softwood lumber
Work toward a more globally-competitive North America while expanding Canada’s trade
horizons to take full advantage of markets in China and other new areas of rapid growth.
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