Please don't throw us outta the NAFTA patch

What's with the NAFTA panic attacks some Canadians are having? They can't really believe the Americans would pull out of their big trade deal with us and Mexico. Maybe it's strategy on their part, like that trickster Brer Rabbit. Brer Fox traps Brer Rabbit and is carrying him to the cook pot. "Do anything to me," pleads the rabbit, "but don't throw me into the briar patch." So the fox does. But don't throw us out of the NAFTA patch. Right. If only. Can anyone honestly think little Mexico and puny Canada fooled the mighty, rich, ruthless U.S. into doing something it didn't understand? It was their idea to start with! Then they got Brian Mulroney's government and the CEOs of U.S. branch companies here to push it through. What did they gain? More