Nirmal,

As someone who supports the notion of free trade, I should tell you that there's nothing more irritating to me than listening to politicians yammer on as if any of our current treaties bear any resemblance to free trade. They are nothing more than neo-mercantilist arrangements by which we flood their markets with our excess products, destroying their economies, and create pools of desperation wage labour that we can then exploit. I think that any part of this debate has to begin by calling a spade a spade, and pointing out that there is no free trade to begin with.

My $0.02 on a Monday morning.

-dx