However, the proposed FTAA would also give corporations new "rights" to challenge and compete for every publicly funded service now provided by governments - from health care and education to social security, culture and environmental protection. ... Under NAFTA, Canada has already surrendered control of its energy resources to the United States - a fact that has led directly to massive exports, lost conservation, higher oil and gas prices for Canadian consumers and increased pollution of the environment. ... The prices soar, and this leads to basic services being unaffordable to parts of the...

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Even if some would say so, it is not about vanishing or colonising cultures, but about supplying information and goods to them. Old cultural elements are brought together with the new international culture. ... Japanese Sony (n5), Canadian Seagram (n15), Dutch Philips (n18); and Australian News Corporation (n27), (O"Sullivant, 1990:179). ...

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Many countries like Canada, or the US embraced free trade and benefited tremendously. ... Even though they did isolate themselves, they finally started to realize that they were behind and they needed to be like the rest of the world to improve better in technology and the way of living (or just the promotion or improvement of culture). ...

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