text: Trade has always been a part of human history. From antiquity to the present time man established trade routes, by caravans along the famous Silk Road or by vessels plying the seas. Canada, in recent centuries sold its wheat, fish from the Grand Banks, timber, ores, manufactured products and had substantial trade with world countries.
  
  But that was then and that was before 'free trade' deals and pacts between large international corporations entered for rapid profit and control of people. Trade deals became the means for maximizing profit without regard for the producers/people and even less regard for the  environmental and social repercussions. Greed leaves little time for social justice concerns!
  
  How could this have happened so quickly? One word: governments. Governments who sold out to corporate power and greed; there is a word for the merging of government and corporate powers: the word i fascism. Il Duce introduced it in 1930's Italy. Globalism and 'free trade' have revived it.