Where do the benefits of free trade and free markets begin? These questions are — in our ideologically driven world — too rarely asked.
It’s alarmingly clear now that the EU trade deal is toxic for Canada
The EU sees trade as a mechanism through which its political goals can be met. That’s why it still insists that its trading partners agree to everything from welfare policies to open borders — it even demands this of the U.K. in any new trade deal that Britain strikes after it leaves the EU.
Brexit is already proving to be a huge victory for global free trade

World trade, Canada’s included, is beating a direct path to the British market.
The EU has no choice but to give the U.K. whatever deal Brexiteers want

The EU needs the U.K. much more than the U.K. needs the EU.
Brexit was the U.K.’s vote against a new socialist empire

The UK’s decision to leave the European Union continues the Great Unwinding of multinational states that began with the collapse of empires after the First World War.