MA129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: North American Free Trade Agreement, Robert Pastor
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Week 7 reading response: greg anderson believes that incremental change has been critical to integration in north. Looking back on north america"s slower cycle of immigration we can see how. Anderson argues that nafta slowed down the process of integration, and instead created an agreement where the united states holds the most influence over the other countries involved. Canada and mexico are in favour of continental integration as they both expressed excitement over the creation of nafta. However, america expressed sovereignty over canada and mexico, and instead of connecting the three nations, it created two bilateral relationships between america and each country. America"s dominance in nafta, as he is worried about foreigners stealing american citizen"s jobs. To protect americans jobs, the united states has begun to increase trade with asia. This action will weaken the significance of nafta, and thereby hurt canada and mexico.
