A NAFTA challenge to Medicare ... the other shoe dropping?
By Larry Brown
National Secretary-Treasurer
National Union of Public and General Employees
Canadian governments have made our public health care and other social programs very vulnerable to attack by private for profit companies outside of Canada. They have done that by signing trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Weve known that for years î º and for years weve been warning them and nervously waiting for the other shoe to drop, for someone to actually challenge our public programs.