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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
I’m not super well informed on Brexit, how it all worked and what all the benefits / drawbacks were etc. but doesn’t the logic flow through that if Britain was better off as an EU member then Canada is better off with the USA as one North American “continental free trade zone” (if you believe it would be a free trade setup) and the spin off ancillary benefits of that union?
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It might, Canada's situation is substantially different than the UK/EU dynamic though, the great thing about the EU was the separate countries complimented each other, Germany made things, France grew things, the UK did the paperwork.
If you turned NAFTA into a wholly open border free trade zone all manufacturing would be sucked down into Mexico in a week just because of wages, also you need a largely complementary set of laws and standards, it would be hard to keep free healthcare here