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To get a sense of the transformations going on in the world at large, consider that the Canadian Parliment debated scrapping their own currency and switching to a common currency with the US and Mexico. The measure failed. This article, from the World Socialist Web Site, posits that the reasons for this may be the neo-liberal desire to scrap the Canadian social infrastructure, and the concern that the world is forming trading blocs and now is the time to ‘choose sides.’