Trembling Before the World: Canada'sWaning Political Soverienty

Globalism is one of the most fashionable words in use today. The term implies a movement towards a supranational order and has enormous political, economic, and cultural implications. Globalism is fundamentally a grand homogenizing force that casts a massive and daunting specter that threatens to gobble up individual and national identities. The new world order, as it has become known, has primarily been driven by a revolution in communications and information technology. International diplomatic structures created in the wake of World War II such as the United Nations, Bretton Woods and the IMF also helped to make possible further global economic and cultural integration. Yet it was most likely technological advances that fully allowed the economic integration fueled by capital's resulting ability to "go global." Huge Trans-national corporations (TNC's) were able to expand production and exploit new markets with the further liberalization of the protective trade policies of the ...