Almost two years after your humble e-scribbler pointed out the blatant stupidity of the provincial government’s decision to boycott free trade talks, the provincial government is now sorting itself out.
The provincial government trade gang will switch from observers to participants at the upcoming trade talks between Canada and the European Union in April.
The old policy - supported unquestioningly by the same people who have now turned 180 degrees – was stupid because it jeopardized the existing and future economic interests of the province and left local industry to being left out of a new lucrative market.
What’s worse, the old, stupid policy threatened to increase the dependence of the local economy on on the American market. As a result, the provincial economy would become even more fragile than it had already grown as a result of seven years of backward economic policy by the provincial government.
It may have taken two years but the current crowd have finally figured it out.
- srbp -