Canada-EU Free Trade Deal

Election campaigns are no time to discuss policy, someone once said. Perhaps that's why none of the candidates has mentioned a topic just broached by Doug Saunders in the Globe. This is a big deal. Negotiations begin October 17. According to Saunders, Trade Minister Fortier has been engaged in preliminary talks for months on the subject of “deep economic integration".

"If successful, Canada would be the first developed nation to have open trade relations with the EU, which has completely open borders between its members but imposes steep trade and investment barriers on outsiders."