text: And the G&M continues with it's policy of fomenting open trade. Consider for just a minute that Canadian inflation adjusted median incomes fell from 1981 until 1998 as trade expanded and flourished. Yet trade as a percent of our GDP maxed out in 2000 and has dropped ( a lot) since then while median incomes have risen. That tells you all that you need to know about why people reject free trade - they reject it because it hurts them.  Our government and it's various cheerleaders, G&M included, want to put us back onto a bad path.