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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Reagan-and-Mulroney-NAFTA-leaders.png705558For Canada, the heart of the initial Canada-US free trade negotiations was a binding, binational system of dispute settlement. The greatest risk to our trade with the United States, then and now, was arbitrary or capricious decisions that curtailed our market access. Or, if you like, sheer protectionism. The solution devised to resolve disputes in […]