Today in Canada’s Political History: Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland defends the new NAFTA deal | National Newswatch

All political eyes were on Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on this date in 2020 as she led off the Commons debate on the recently negotiated United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement . Thanks to Donald Trump, the negotiations had been, shall we say, rocky. Freeland, however, told MPs, it had been worth it in the end.

“Canadians have come a long way since 2017, when Canada’s most important trading relationship – indeed our national prosperity itself – was put at serious risk,” she told the House. “The years that followed were among the more turbulent in our history, Mr. Speaker. We have emerged, not only with the essential elements of the North American Free Trade Agreement intact, but with a better, more effective, and fairer agreement than before.

Freeland also looked back on the controversies from the original free trade debates in the 1980s and 1990s. “A little more than 25 years ago, the North American Free Trade Agreement created the world’s largest economic trading zone. But, let’s remember that that didn’t come about easily or without controversy,” she said. “A federal election was fought over free trade, in 1988. And my own mother ran against free trade for the New Democrats, in the riding of Edmonton-Strathcona.

https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2020/01/30/deputy-prime-minister-remarks-second-reading-legislation-implement-newis an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.

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