http://www.dominionpaper.ca/taxonomy/term/1532/0 en http://www.dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/dawn/1862 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-blog-entry-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="filefield-file"><img class="filefield-icon field-icon-image-jpeg" alt="image/jpeg icon" src="http://www.dominionpaper.ca/sites/all/modules/filefield/icons/image-x-generic.png" /><a href="http://www.dominionpaper.ca/files/weblogs-img/colombia-fta-protest.jpg" type="image/jpeg; length=50501">colombia-fta-protest.jpg</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/articulo/uribe_tlc_canada_2514044.htm">South American news agencies</a> are reporting that the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and Colombia could be signed this week in Bogotá.</p> <p>A Canadian "technical team" is <a href="http://www.dinero.com/wf_InfoArticulo.aspx?IdArt=48634"> participating in the 5th -and potentially final- round of negotiations in Bogotá from 1-6 June.</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&amp;sid=aC75pL9KuU.M&amp;refer=canada">Bloomberg quoted U of T political "scientist" John Kirton</a> as saying: "An agreement 'will give aid and comfort to all the liberalizing forces within the United States who are instantly going to notice it and say if the Canadians are doing Colombia, why can't we.'"</p> <p>An excellent background article, <a href="http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/6926/1/336/">"Building its Ties to Colombia: Canada's Imperial Adventure in the Andes,"</a> explains some of the major problems related to a Canada-Colombia FTA.</p> <p>Photo from <a href="http://www.commonfrontiers.ca/Gallery/No_Colombia_FTA/index.htm">No Colombia FTA rally in Toronto in November, 2007</a>.</p> http://www.dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/dawn/1862#comments Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Canada Bogotá Colombia Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:22:20 +0000 dawn 1862 at http://www.dominionpaper.ca