The CFTA represents the art-of-the-possible at its best in politics.  Trying in one swoop to go as far as the authors of this article would have wished would only have placed the focus on details that are the most politically sensitive (i.e. made Provinces reluctant to sign on and create strong negative reactions by interest groups in the various Provinces once the details were widely publicized) rather than on the broad principle on which there is wide support.

This is how progress is made in a democracy.