We need to work together (with the U.S. government) to make trade agreements with China right for both of us,

underscores the need for a proactive U.S. competitiveness agenda that promotes research and development and encourages a work force skilled in math, science and technology, among other things.

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement.

Lula is going to build a government based on alliances, a government in which businessmen, bankers, trade unions -- the whole of society -- will participate. The trademark of Lula's government will be participation.

It's not for the government to say that's not a legitimate trade-off to make. Canadians need to question the idea that just because something implicates health that government intervention is justified.

Agreements are always the product of time and place.