"the purpose of the summit is to help democracy. We want to strengthen democracy, the rule of law..." 

US ambassador to Canada, Paul Celucci  at the 2001 Quebec trade summit,

President Bush repeated the same, that free trade is the foundation of freedom.

He said he was putting his money where his mouth was by backing an action plan of $20 billion to build up democracy in every nation joining up with the massive new free-trade zone forged in Quebec.

Colin Nickerson Boston Globe 21/4/01)World Bank 2000