I'm not flaming anyone, except Canadian trademark law. And in what way do you consider my view on free trade perverted? Don't you find that giving the trademark owner the ability to prevent imports restricts the free trade of people who bought their goods?
Say I'm Canadian, I buy a Mercedes, and 2 years later, decide to sell it to a buyer in the US. Now Mercedes can prevent that sale, by not giving permission to export my car. At that point, isn't Mercedes a third party?
Uh? This is exactly what I am saying. You should be free to buy a Mercedes in Canada and sell in the US or to anyone else you want peacefully.
Your original post seemed to be a criticism of free trade.
It's not that the "free trade stuff never applies to consumers". Everything that the state does in the name of free trade is baloney and only works to give power to politicians or lobbyists. As I said in my comment before: free trade is really free when it is unilateral. When there is no politics involved.
Say I'm Canadian, I buy a Mercedes, and 2 years later, decide to sell it to a buyer in the US. Now Mercedes can prevent that sale, by not giving permission to export my car. At that point, isn't Mercedes a third party?