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Well I'm not in favor of free trade beyond a certain point. The people who are in favor of Free Trade say that it can make everyone more prosperous and that's true up to a point, and that point is where it starts subverting democracy. But the point of these treaties is precisely to stretch free trade to the point where it does subvert democracy. And you can see business think-tanks reporting how they expect in a few decades governments will have much less control over what goes on in the world and business will have more control. What they're predicting is essentially that these treaties will march on.