The Truth About Canada (53 page)

6.
Globe and Mail
, September 17, 2005.

7.
Globe and Mail
, October 17, 2006.

8.
Globe and Mail
, August 20, 2005.

9.
February 17, 2004.

10.
Globe and Mail
, September 29, 2005.

11.
See Erin Weir, “Chapter Six, Canada’s Free-Trade Agreements with the U.S. and Mexico: The Exaggeration of North American Trade,” in
International Trade and Neoliberal Globalism
, Paul Bowles et al., eds (London: Routledge, 2008).

12.
Globe and Mail
, September 5, 2005. Spector is a former chief of staff to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

13.
Maclean’s
, November 27, 2005.

14.
Globe and Mail
, December 23, 2006

15.
Toronto Star
, August 22, 2005

16.
Intent for a Nation
(Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2007).

17.
The Global Class War
(Toronto: John Wiley, 2006).

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

1.
The Economist
magazine’s
Pocket World in Figures
, 2007.

2.
OECD Economic Outlook
, December 2006.

3.
“Chained” refers to a technical method by which the National Accounts create inflation-adjusted data.

4.
Canadian Economic Observer
, Historical Statistical Supplement, 2006/07, Statistics Canada, p. 7.

5.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, February 13, 2007.

6.
Canadian Economic Observer
, March 2006.

7.
OECD in Figures
, 2006, 2007.

8.
Globe and Mail
, November 10, 2006.

9.
New Statistics Canada figures show a small surplus of $2.76-billion in automobile products in 2006.

10.
Toronto Star
, March 25, 2005.

11.
OECD Economic Outlook
, June 2007.

12.
Canadian Economic Observer
, Statistics Canada, May 2005.

13.
Globe and Mail
, March 2, 2006.

14.
See “Cyclical Implications of the Rising Import Content in Exports,”
Canadian Economic Observer
, Statistics Canada, 2002, and see Grant Cameron and Philip Cross, “The Importance of Exports to GDP and Jobs,”
Canadian Economic Observer
, Statistics Canada, November 1999.

15.
Published in 2006 by the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine (www.umain.edu/canam).

16.
OECD Economic Outlook
, December 2006.

CHAPTER THIRTY

1.
Fair Trade For All
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

2.
New York Times
, April 2, 2006.

3.
The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World
(Toronto: Viking Canada, 2005).

4.
Review of Jeff Faux,
The Global Class War
, March 5, 2006.

5.
New York Times
, March 5, 2006.

6.
Princeton Progressive Review
, March 29, 2005.

7.
September 2, 2006.

8.
OECD in Figures
, 2007.

9.
One Big Party
(Toronto: Hushion House, 2003).

PART SEVEN

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

1.
Save the Children, 2007.

2.
April 11, 2005.

3.
The Walrus
, October 2005.

4.
Toronto Star
, August 3, 2006.

5.
Global Child Survival and Health
.

6.
Maclean’s
, November 20, 2006.

7.
The Social Benefits and Economic Costs of Taxation
, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2007.

8.
The Economist
, May 28, 2005.

9.
Financial Times
, January 5, 2006.

10.
Globe and Mail
, April 22, 2005.

11.
Toronto Star
, May 8, 2007.

12.
United Nations,
Human Development Report
, 2005.

13.
United Nations,
Human Development Report
, 2005.

14.
Reliable estimates say that inexpensive insecticide-treated bed nets can reduce malaria transmission by at least 50 percent.

15.
United Nations,
Human Development Report
, 2005.

16.
April 12, 2005.

17.
Luiz Inácio da Silva.

18.
Stephen Lewis,
Race Against Time
(Toronto: House of Anansi, 2005).

19.
David R. Boyd, “Canada Is Failing the World’s Poor,”
Toronto Star
, May 8, 2007. David Boyd is an environmental lawyer, author, and Trudeau Scholar at the University of British Columbia.

20.
Globe and Mail
, June 5, 2007.

21.
Globe and Mail
, June 6, 2007.

22.
Stephen Lewis,
Race Against Time
(Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2005).

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

1.
The American submarine fleet is all nuclear, but the Russians still have diesel/electric subs not unlike the subs Canada purchased from Britain.

2.
In 2006, Canada became the 13th highest military spender in the world.

3.
NATO-Russia Compendium of Financial and Economic Data Relating to Defence
(1985–2006).

4.
Toronto Star
, February 13, 2007.

5.
Angus Reid, June 11, 2007.

6.
Strategic Counsel,
Globe and Mail
, July 13, 2007.

7.
Toronto Star
, October 27, 2007.

8.
United Nations,
Human Development Report
, 2006, and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

9.
January 15, 2007.

10.
Vancouver Sun
, November 10, 2006

11.
CBC TV, November 5, 2006.

12.
June 29, 2006.

13.
Steven Staples in
Marching Orders
, Council of Canadians.

14.
Maclean’s
, November 20, 2006.

15.
Decima, October 2, 2006.

16.
February 24, 2007.

17.
Globe and Mail
, February 28, 2007.

18.
Toronto Star
, August 20, 2007.

19.
James Ridgeway,
Counterpunch
.

20.
Globe and Mail
, July 17, 2007.

21.
New York Times
, February 26, 2007.

22.
Steve Connor in the
Independent
(U.K.).

23.
Toronto Star
, October 27, 2006. Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia.

24.
Michael Byers,
Intent for a Nation
(Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2007), p. 158.

25.
The 2004 Speech from the Throne promised to tackle the issue of the Northwest Passage once and for all.

26.
September 10, 1985.

27.
August 12, 2007.

28.
June 14, 2007.

PART EIGHT

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

1.
OECD Economic Outlook
, June 2007.

2.
Fiscal Reference Tables
, Department of Finance, September 2007.

3.
Perspectives on Labour and Income
, Statistics Canada, Spring 2007.

4.
“The Social Benefits and Economic Costs of Taxation,” 2007.

5.
From 1982 to 2005, transfers to persons were over 5 percent of GDP 10 times, over 4 percent 13 times.

6.
Globe and Mail
, June 16, 2006.

7.
Earth Policy Institute, Eco-Economy Update, December 14, 2006–12, “Santa Claus Is Chinese” or “Why China Is Rising and the United States Is Declining.”

8.
April 18, 2005.

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

1.
This adds up to more than 100 percent because of transfers from Ottawa to the provinces and local governments, and transfers by the provinces to local governments.

2.
Toronto Star
, November 24, 2006.

3.
Globe and Mail
, May 2, 2007.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Toronto Star
, March 31, 2007.

6.
October 1, 2007.

7.
August 14, 2007.

8.
Toronto Star
, September 27, 2007.

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

1.
Globe and Mail
, April 25, 2007.

2.
Globe and Mail
, May 28, 2007.

3.
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

4.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, February 28, 2007.

5.
According to, for instance,
Petroleum Review
editor Chris Skrebowski. See David Crane,
Toronto Star
, July 15, 2005.

6.
Globe and Mail
, November 7, 2007.

7.
National Post
, March 6, 2007.

8.
Canada’s Energy Outlook
.

9.
Globe and Mail
, October 5, 2006.

10.
Globe and Mail
, May 28, 2005.

11.
Telephone conversation, January 10, 2006.

12.
Globe and Mail
, May 11, 2007.

13.
One barrel of oil-sands oil creates three times as much GHG as one barrel of conventional oil.

14.
Globe and Mail
, May 23, 2007.

15.
Globe and Mail
, June 26, 2007.

16.
Toronto Star
, October 5, 2006.

17.
The Economist
, August 12, 2006.

18.
“Selling the Family Silver,” Parkland Institute, Edmonton, November 2006.

19.
Strategic Counsel,
Globe and Mail
, September 16, 2006.

20.
Report on Business
, June 2006.

21.
March 10, 2007.

22.
Amy Taylor, Pembina Institute economist, Calgary, May 22, 2007.

23.
February 17, 2005.

24.
National Post
, October 18, 2005.

25.
Globe and Mail
, March 9, 2007.

26.
Globe and Mail
, June 5, 2007.

27.
Globe and Mail
, September 19, 2007.

28.
Globe and Mail
, September 29, 2007.

29.
Financial Post
, October 2, 2007.

30.
Globe and Mail
, September 7, 2007.

31.
Globe and Mail
, October 28, 2007.

32.
See William Marsden,
Stupid to the Last Drop
(Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2007).