There are signs that the political consensus supporting this long-standing arrangement is about to collapse, among them the defection of a leading Quebec spokesman
by BARRY WILSON
Pascal Lamy, the director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), insists that 2011 is the year when trade negotiators must fish or cut bait.
If they want an end to the Doha Round of WTO talks, launched more than nine years ago, then this is the year to turn off the answering machines and begin making serious bargaining concessions at Geneva negotiations, he told negotiators late last year.