Premier David Peterson predicted carnage for Ontario's economy caused by the implementation of so-called Free Trade. A recession in 1990 coincided with massive economic structural change demanded by Free Trade, making the recession more like a depression, lasting from 1990 to 1995. Remember companies like Gillette and Caterpillar bugging out before the ink dried? The promise of Prime Minister Mulroney to have the world's finest worker adjustment programs? Chretien did not negotiated NAFTA but campaigned successfully in 1993 against NAFTA, promising to kill it without substantive change. Chretien betrayed his electoral platform. Turner correctly pointed out that giving up the economic levers results in the loss of political levers, sovereignty.

Mulroney betrayed Canada's independence and sovereignty whilst temporarily saving his ethically challenged government. Chickens came home to roost with the Progressive Conservative party dying.

Most nations do not envy Canada's predicament.