steveintoronto
Superstar
Many of the comments are very revealing. Audrey McLaughlin especially should be pilloried today for her claims back then. "400,000 jobs lost due to Nafta". I'm a Centrist, and any and all parties are worthy of praise and derision, depending on what they say and do, but the comments from all the candidates at that time, some far more than others, were astoundingly off the mark in retrospect. Chretien's claim that (gist) "The US is bound by the agreement to reopen negotiations on Nafta" is prophetic. And correct btw! The US has tried on at least two occasions, it's been Canada intransigent on complying, not the US.And Peter Kent is one of the journalists, long before he became a CPC hack.
I sent the portion of McLaughlin's comments to some NDP party hacks I know. No response so far...And Preston Manning was actually sensible and measured. Too bad the Cons buried him when they had their 'Grand Synthesis'. I'm still working my way through that vid, it's long, and have yet to find Bouchard's 'blow up' with Kim Campbell. Hopefully it's in there. It was a high-point.