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rapidly. According to National Energy Board figures, as exports deplete our reserves , the cost of

natural gas to Canadian consumers will increase dramatically, and by 2012, Canada s entire

known gas reserves will be extinct (http://web.idirect.com/ ccaft/ ). What will be left then for us?

The loss of our right to manage our resources has frightening environmental, economic and social

implications.

Under this provision Canada will never be able to become a successful industrial power,

because its most important competitive advantage energy has been signed away. This is like the

Canadian hockey team, in a World Championship final against the U.S., promising not to play its

best players and even to let those players play for its U.S. opponents!

After introducing the CCAFT, the text from there until here is the nightmare aspect of

free trade. Now, here are some opportunities of free trade. Well, first of all, it eliminates tariffs

and quotas which facilitates trade. It allows trade to be done in bigger numbers, faster and

cheaper. That is the main purpose of free trade. Second of all, it protects property rights such as

patents, copyrights, etc. Third of all, (in the case of NAFTA) it improves working conditions, in

the case of Mexico for workers under paid and mistreated, and environmental protection. Another

point that falls under opportunities is the act of forming such an agreement which I think promotes

peace and harmony between the countries in question.

Free trade has quite an history. It has always been a concern to the major trading

countries like the U.S., Canada, Germany, etc, because they kept on expending their territories,

travelling goods across borders became esier and other countries always had and will always have

goods or services that other countries need . Based on this essay and all of the information

gathered above, I ve come to the decision that free trade is more of a nightmare than an

opportunity. I used to think that free trade was ideal and was the greatest thing that ever

happened to Canada . But, the article that I found on the Internet changed my mind. That article

was one of many others opposing free trade for Canada. I didn t know of such an act that has

gained, in the past years, so much awareness among Canadians. In conclusion, free trade is a

nightmare in Canada.

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