Tripartite Free Trade Agreement
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Michael Kinsley's tongue-in-cheek statement that the only cure for Canada's neurosis is for the United States to adopt Canada and the Canadian people and to make Canada the 51st state. The impetus for this statement is a discussion of the issue of free trade from the American perspective, which is seen generally as a matter of trade that is more beneficial to American interests and that eliminates Canadian and other "foreign" restrictions so American goods can cross borders more frequently. Kinsley's statement evokes not the secret desire of Canadians but their secret and not-so-secret fear that the economic giant to the south will one day swallow them up, and free trade is believed by many to be the tool that will make it possible. Canadians see the United States as an economic and cultural powerhouse that threatens all that is unique in the Canadian system. In terms of the issue of free trade, Canadians may see one saving grace in the various arguments that have been taking place in the United Stats on the issue in recent years--the argument tends to center more on Mexico and what will happen there than on Canada. Once again, Canada is ignored as a threat while courted as a potential market. We also fear that this may be right, that we are no threat economically as we would like to be, and that free trade will only assure that we stay that way. The tripartite free trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico is known as the North American Free Trade Agreement
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rstood in the United States. When Kinsley says that perhaps the U.S, should make Canada another state, many Americans may think Canada is already serving the role of a possession like Puerto Rico--it is a source of consumers with low maintenance. Canadians themselves sometimes feel as if they are treated just that way by the United States. We feel that we are looked upon as a shopping mall to the north, a place to send goods in quantities that may overwhelm our domestic market.
Canadians have a disjointed view of themselves. On the one hand, they see themselves as an independent nation, a confederation quite unlike the American system, and they express the desire to be Canadians and not Americans. On the other hand, they are exposed to much that is American in a way that leaves them with a certain sense of inferiority so that even as they decry being a 51st state they may believe that in some ways that is precisely what they are. They see themselves as unique and important in the world, but they do not give as much attention to studying themselves and their role in the world as their American counterparts do to studying themselves. As noted by The Symons Report on Canadian studies, Canadians are self-reflective in their p
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Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page)
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