Contents -- Tables and Figures -- List of Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- PART ONE: CONTEXT AND OVERVIEW -- 1 Canada, Free Trade, and "Deep Integration" in North America: Context, Problems, and Challenges -- Economic integration: Dubious benefits, troubling prospects -- Costing free trade: Impacts on essential services and public policy -- Costing free trade: Impacts on the environment and natural resources -- September 11 and the deep integration agenda -- Unholy alliance: The coming together of trade and security -- Framing the debate: Integration, deeper integration, and even deeper integration -- Revitalizing democracy, upholding the public good -- Moving forward: Resisting assimilation, deepening democracy -- Notes -- References -- 2 Free Trade Allies: The Making of a New Continentalism -- Politics, business, and the free trade agenda -- Continentalism: Old and new -- Canada and us hegemony -- Contesting the new continentalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Corporate Canada: Washington's Empire Loyalists -- Strategic lessons -- Corporate restructuring -- Security paradigm -- Strategic bargain? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART TWO: SEPTEMBER 11 AND THE DEEP INTEGRATION AGENDA -- 4 Paradigm Shift or Paradigm Twist? The Impact of the Bush Doctrine on Canada's International Position -- Economic liberalization -- Prevention: National security at home -- Retribution and pre-emption: Military force for regime change -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 "Community of Law:" Proposals for a Strategic Deal with the United States -- Context: The political and economic conjuncture since 1994 -- After the shock: Fall 2001 -- Proposals for a new continental architecture -- The big idea: Institutional dilemmas and political realities -- Towards the big idea in small instalments -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

6 Fortress North America: The Drive towards Military and Security Integration and Its Impact on Canadian Democratic Sovereignty -- After September 11: A world map redrawn -- The assault on "human security" -- The Bush Doctrine and the next phase of globalization -- Corporate Canada rallies for a "big idea" -- Building Fortress North America -- The strategic alliance between the corporate and defence lobbies -- Background to Canada-us continental military cooperation -- New commands and the Bi-National Planning Group -- National Missile Defence -- Confronting the militarycorporate lobby -- A reinvigorated movement is needed -- Notes -- References -- 7 Risking Rights: An Assessment of Canadian Border Security Policies -- Securing the nation with immigration law -- Border (in)security -- Racial profiling -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART THREE: FREE TRADE: ECONOMICE AND LABOUR IMPACTS -- 8 From Leaps of Faith to Hard Landings: Fifteen Years of "Free Trade" -- The great free trade debate -- Downward harmonization: Social dimensions of the integrated economic space -- Moving forward -- Afternote -- Notes -- References -- 9 Critical Macroeconomic Aspects of Deepening North American Economic Integration -- North American commercial integration: Some stylized facts -- Macroeconomic policies: The record -- Greater North American monetary integration? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 10 All Pain, No Gain: Canadian Labour in the Integrated North American Economy -- The lost decade: The labour market in the 1990s -- Explaining the great Canadian slump of the 1990s -- The impact of economic integration on labour standards -- Conclusion: Which way for labour? -- Notes -- References -- 11 The Costs and Benefits of a Canada-us Customs Union -- Customs union and economic integration -- Eliminating rules of origin.

The downside of "common" trade policy -- US trade remedy laws, retaliation and harassment -- Assessing the bargain -- Notes -- References -- PART FOUR: FREE TRADE: IMPACTS ON PUBLIC POLICY AND CULTURE -- 12 An International Bill of Rights for Foreign Investors -- The special case of foreign investment treaties -- A revolutionary expansion of investor rights -- Deploying investor rights -- Investor rights and public services -- P3s, privatization, and investor rights -- Contracting out of nafta? -- Investor rights in search of a rationale -- The uncertain future of foreign investor rights -- Human rights not corporate rights -- Notes -- References -- 13 Impact of Trade Agreements on Subnational Governments -- Trade agreements: CUFTA,NAFTA WTO and AIT -- Education and privatization -- Trade agreements and municipalities -- What happens next? -- Notes -- References -- 14 Trade Treaties, Privatization, and Health Care Reform in Canada -- Unsafe practices: Underfunding, commercialization, and decentralization -- Recent government reports on health care reform -- Hazardous mixture: Existing trade treaties and health care reform -- Looming challenges: New trade treaty negotiations -- Conclusion: Towards healthy health care reform -- Notes -- References -- 15 Free Trade and Deep Integration in North America: Saving Canadian Culture -- The Canadian cultural dilemma -- Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement: The sell-out begins -- Pressure on Canadian cultural policies continues -- Erosion of foreign ownership limits -- Defending against cultural assimilation -- Convention on cultural diversity -- Notes -- References -- 16 Free Trade and Quebec Models of Development -- The Quiet Revolution -- Free trade in context -- The emergence of a second-generation development model -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

PART FIVE: DEEP INTEGRATION :IMPACTS ON ENVIRONMENT ENERGY AND PATENT LAW -- 17 Breaking the Free Trade Addiction: An Intervention on Environmental Grounds -- What we are losing: The state of Canada's environment -- Who knew? Looking back on the establishment of NAFTA -- On the sideline: nafta's environmental institutions -- The failure of strategic environmental assessment of trade agreements -- NAFTA and the (in)ability to respond to the environmental crisis -- NAFTA, climate change, and the appetite for oil -- Taking bad to worse: "The big, stupid idea" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 18 Imperialist Regulation: US Electricity Market Designs and Their Problems for Canada and Mexico -- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) -- Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) -- Creating larger markets -- The electricity debate in Mexico -- Canada's regulatory system -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 19 Pipelines and Pipe Dreams: Energy and Continental Security -- A match made in heaven -- Deregulation, NAFTA, and the promotion of exports -- Corporate strategies: Pressures to export -- Limits to integration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 20 Of Harvard Mice and Prairie Farmers: Canadian Patents on Life -- What is a patent? -- The life patents debate -- Life patent reform proposals -- Conclusion -- References -- PART SIX: THE WAY FORWED: BULDING A MOVEMENT DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVES -- 21 Challenging the Forces of Deep Integration -- The facts on the ground: The materialist and political reality of assimilation -- The record of the left in challenging the right's hegemony -- The right's hegemonic campaigns -- Fighting deep integration as a counter-hegemonic struggle -- The left's organizational dilemma -- The struggle against deep integration: The Americanization of Canada -- Notes -- References.

22 Managing Canada-us Relations: An Alternative to Deep Integration -- Living with NAFTA: Constraints on policy freedom -- Can the current course be altered? -- Elements of an action plan -- Deep integration under the Martin Liberals -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.