Free Trade and Social Policy

(edited by Glen Drover, 1988, 168 pp., #120, $20.00)

This book is the result of a group of well-informed people with diverse views and backgrounds getting together to explore the implications of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement for Canadian social policies and programs

The papers presented in the publication examine such critical issues as the role of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements in harmonizing national social programs of the trading partners; the implications of free trade in services for the management of health institutions; the impact of "national treatment" requirements on commercial operations of personal social services; adn the need for labour adjustment programs to offset employment changes as a result of the Agreement.

A thoughtful discussion of these issues by both proponents and opponents of the Agreement, by sceptics and enthusiasts, academics and advocates of social reform, labour and business, and by government and opposition parties, brings new and deeper insights into this important item on the Canadian public policy agenda.

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