The real villain of Caterpillar shutdown? Mindless free trade - The Toronto Star

The Caterpillar plant-closing saga is not simple. Yes, the company´s
actions were odious. Caterpillar clearly had no intention of keeping its
newly purchased London locomotive plant open - and closed it as soon as
the company´s preferred location, Indiana, passed anti-union laws. And
yes, Canada´s governments behaved shamefully. ... But the real villain is
unrestrained globalization. As long as goods and capital are free to move
unimpeded across national borders, companies - even nice ones - will
locate where wages are cheap. All of this could be changed. But to do so
would require the fundamental rethinking of belief in the unalloyed virtue
of free trade, a belief that the country´s political and business classes
accept on faith.

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the-real-villain-of-caterpillar-shutdown-mindless-free-trade