The coordinated public attacks by Harper and former Conservative minister James Moore yesterday have nothing to do with improving Canada's negotiating position; they're about undermining the Liberals. Period. 

Harper/Moore know perfectly well that our government would be negotiating from weakness if it followed their strategy. Unfortunately, it's no longer shocking that the Conservatives are publicly supporting a foreign country's demands for a win/lose/lose outcome. If the Trudeau government suddenly caved in because of what Harper/Moore are doing, then the US would walk all over us. Not only that, the majority of Canadians would be rightly furious with the government for letting them down.

This is an out-and-out betrayal of Canada's interests by Conservatives for party political gain. Rather than letting them create false alarm about NAFTA, Canadian should simply remember why we threw them out in 2015.