Silly. Relax. Free Trade with the U.S.A. has been an unmatched key to our prosperity for a quarter century. Way back when, I remember the NDP and Liberals howling that free trade would ruin the country and ultimately lead to an American "takeover" of the country. Tears in their eyes as they called Mulroney a demon. Well, years later the Chretien Liberal government expanded it to NAFTA - smartly. And even if the NDP had won last year's election, they wouldn't have touched it in any way. It's worth too much. Without it, we would be stumbling - and so would the Americans. No two countries in human history have traded more than the two of us. The root of our prosperity. It's why 30 million of Canada's 36 million people live within a two and half hour drive of the border.

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