EU deal's biggest benefit: Better trade within Canada

July 20, 2011

The following is excerpted from the 20 July 2011 edition of The Globe and Mail.

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the 1988 election upon which it was largely based occurred when I was in graduate school. At the time, my impression of the general consensus among economists was that the FTA was a good idea, but that it wasn't all that big a deal...

This article is available in its entirety on The Globe and Mail website at:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/stephen-gordon/eu-trade-deal-would-help-ease-interprovincial-barriers/article2103237/

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