{"id":10252,"date":"2009-04-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"harper-wins-anti-protectionism-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2009\/harper-wins-anti-protectionism-commitment.html","title":{"rendered":"Harper wins anti-protectionism commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver Sun &#8211; Prime Minister Stephen Harper won a key commitment for Canada at the G20 summit, getting world leaders to agree to extend for 12 months a pledge not to raise new trade barriers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The biggest single thing that could turn this recession into a very long, extended depression would be global protectionism,&rdquo; Harper said in a television interview Wednesday. &ldquo;In our recent budget in Canada, we actually lowered tariffs on imported machinery and equipment. It&rsquo;s important that we start to see some initiatives push in the other direction, to push towards trade liberalization.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/news\/Harper%2Bwins%2Banti%2Bprotectionism%2Bcommitment\/1452072\/story.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver Sun &#8211; Prime Minister Stephen Harper won a key commitment for Canada at the G20 summit, getting world leaders to agree to extend for 12 months a pledge not to raise new trade barriers. &ldquo;The biggest single thing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8830,9761,7819,9760,7884,9759,9758,9750,9753,536,9754,9752,9757,8712,9755,9751,1883,9756],"class_list":["post-10252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-12-months","tag-budget","tag-canada","tag-depression","tag-g20-summit","tag-initiatives","tag-pledge","tag-prime-minister-stephen-harper","tag-protectionism","tag-recession","tag-single-thing","tag-stephen-harper","tag-tariffs","tag-television-interview","tag-trade-barriers","tag-trade-liberalization","tag-vancouver-sun","tag-world-leaders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}