Assuming it is ratified, the free-trade agreement with the European Union may well go down as the best thing the Harper government has done. We haven’t seen a full text. We have little more than our government’s glowing spin on the text. And there are so many variables in such deals that projecting outcomes is a perilous enterprise. But it is an agreement that, while not as big as Brian Mulroney’s North American free trade agreement, opens up broad new frontiers for this country. Any agreement that does that deserves saluting.
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