Second thoughts on NAFTA from our northern neighbor

TheStar.com - Lessons from a Royal commission:

"Among those non-business groups that commented on economic development strategies for Canada, close to 100 per cent either opposed free trade or suggested alternative strategies. More surprisingly, perhaps, close to 50 per cent of business organizations took the same perspective.

"Combined with the fact that 60 per cent of Canadians voted in the 1988 election against the only party advocating free trade, this means the Canadian government embarked upon a policy choice that lacked widespread popular support."

Interesting history on how special interests manipulated Canadian assent to the NAFTA deal. Conspiracists will be inclined to ask how, if so many opposed it everywhere, it ever got approved in the first place.