The Fight for Canada: Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism

by David Orchard

Book Overview

Advocates of the North American Free Trade Agreement have tried to convince the public of the benefits of the U.S. economic conquest of Canada. Because that is the true meaning of NAFTA as the author... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552070255
• ISBN13: 9781552070253
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Studio 9 Books & Music
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.

Customer Reviews

the mouse and the elephant

Here we finally have a Canadian History where the the focus is exactly where it should be: How the heck has a country so rich in natural resources maintained its independence from the United States and its voracious appetite? The short answer is that up until the last 15 years,it did so by protecting itself and its industries from so-called Free Trade deals with its southern neigbour.Since that time, Orchard argues, Canada has struggled to do anything more than integrate deeper and deeper into the American economic system sheddding its much vaunted social programs along the way.

A must buy!

This book is absolutely incredible. I would recomend it to any Canadian who loves his or her country and doesn't want to see it become the 51st state. The book goes through the many conflicts that Canada has had with their southern neighbours, including the Alaska boundary dispute, the war of 1812, and neumorous land quarrels. The trickery and two-facedness of the USA will enrage any reader. The book closes by examining the Free Trade Agreement, the newest threat to Canada's sovereignty. It this last topic which ensures the book's relavence. Today it is easy to see the negative impact of the FTA in topics as diverse as water rights and split-run American magazines. Simply put, everyone should read this important novel.

excellent book on the history of free trade

David Orchard documents the number of times that the United States has attempted to take over Canada and the variety of ways this has been attempted. Mr. Orchard shows that "Free Trade" will destroy this wonderful nation Canada and that eventually Canada will be no more. Mr. Orchard points to the cries of "annaxation" from the U.S. and how Canada has resisted until ten years ago with the signing of the F.T.A. Canada has been betrayed by its own politicians who have licked the feet of multi-national corporations. David Orchard shows very clearly where Canada is heading and how one day Canada may no longer be a nation.