government must still go through the various existing American dispute settling procedures. If after these procedures were exhausted, the Canadians are still dissatisfied, the binding arbitration will be implemented. By this time, however, the disputed duties might have been in place for years, and any damage they would have done to Canadian industry would be history. Except for a few cultural industries in Canada, American and Canadian firms, under the FTA, have unlimited access to the other's markets.
The State of Unionism in Canada and
The future of labor union recognition has been put into question in the 1990s from Britain, a labor union stronghold, to the United States, where labor strength has been waning for decades, and in Canada, which has been sort of a middle ground of union strength. Greater pressure has been placed on the labor unions in recent years because of the increase in decertification actions and because of the increasing rate of s
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