Re: Re: Pomocanadianism

[Doug Henwood]

Bill Burgess wrote:

>Actually, Canada has often been compared to Argentina by (some) 
>Canadian political economists and leftists. While they would not 
>deny the _degree_ of Canadian dependence is less,  they they often 
>do suggest that Canada is dependent "in the same way" as Argentina - 
>or to take a more recent example, Mexico in the context of NAFTA. 
>The traditional dependency argument is rarely made any more, but its 
>logic persists in the Canadian left-nationalist response to current 
>events. While nationalism in nasty imperialist France or Germany is 
>regarded with suspicion, Canada, you see, is in a different 
>category...

How do they deal with the fact that Canadian incomes are 3 times 
Mexico's (according to the World Bank's PPP estimates) - and a hair 
higher than France and Germany's even?

Doug