[ConservativeMind]

“Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, this message got lost. In the NAFTA debates, 1990s politicians focused on the duty reductions as an invitation to import, and never really educated the public – particularly the business community - about the program’s effort to create demand for domestic production.”

Obviously, if it was cheaper to do, US businesses would have sourced locally. “Education” has nothing to do with it when economics always work out the truth in the end.

So, what you are actually saying is that free trade agreements do not create demand for growing local resources—which it shouldn’t, because it’s far cheaper to buy from the other country.

It’s simple logic.

I still like your writing style, sir.