to implement some of the provisions of any free trade agreement. Thus, while the federal Parliament may ratify the agreement, some of the provincial governments may,at some later date, refuse to implement some provisions of the agreement. Thus, even with federal ratification in both countries, FTA problems may loom in the future. MOTIVATIONS FOR THE FTA
The North American economies of the US and Canada certainly two of the strongest economies on earth, if not the most productive have resorted to the use of both voluntary and involuntary quotas in the 1980s, as a means of protecting domestic industries. Further, the US erected a formidable barrier to the export of its own products in the early years of the decade. For combined reasons of economics and national pride, the country raised the international exchange value of the dollar to a high level in the very early 1980s, and kept it at high levels through the fall of 1985. The unrealistically high value of the dollar was one of
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