First Edition, PDF version, December 2013
ISBN: 978-0-9920641-1-2
This book is available online and as an ebook at
http://independencelost.ca
Foreword
Mel Clark (ret.) is one of Canada's most experienced trade negotiators. He led the teams negotiating an international wheat agreement, two international sugar agreements and was deputy head of the Canadian trade delegation which negotiated the Tokyo round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
In this groundbreaking work, Clark turns an expert eye, and his formidable talent and experience, to a thorough examination of the 1989 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Clark is a pro-free trader, a negotiator who has spent his career working for freer trade between nations and had seen Canada thrive within the multilateral trading system. He saw the opening of negotiations for a bilateral Canada-U.S. trade agreement by the Mulroney and Reagan governments in the mid-'80s as a move away from genuine free trade, and a fundamental mistake, putting Canada in peril. This began his long pursuit, and documentation,
of facts not easily available to the public.
The result is a meticulous analysis of Canada's most important trading relationship in powerful, no-nonsense language, a book which is both highly informative and readable, useful to the layman and trade specialist alike.
Trade is the life blood of nations, and Canada is one of the world's major traders. Clark, a patriot and a man who knows his business.
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