ABSTRACT
Information highway initiatives are being pursued vigorously by several industrial nations including Japan, the United States, and members of the European Union. In the 1970s and more so in the 1980s, however, regulatory agencies in Canada, the US, and elsewhere were intent on inducing competition in telecommunications. Information Highway supports trends apparent since the 1950's as regards the aggrandizement of transnational corporate power and the concomitant erosion of national sovereignty. The idea that "Team Canada" is forming policies, such as free trade and information highway initiatives, makes a lot of sense once it is realized that the beneficiaries of such initiatives are predominantly "Team Canada's" transnational corporate members. Labor's strength flows from solidarity, so of course it too is suffering from enhanced transnational corporate power as enabled by advanced telecommunications. The ethic of greed consecrated by Adam Smith and articulated in free trade deals and Information Highway initiatives also pits Canadian labor against low wage Third World labor.
