Wrestling with the elephant : the inside story of the Canada-US trade wars
On the tenth anniversary of the controversial Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, one of its architects released this engrossing and remarkably candid inside account of the tumultuous course of those negotiations and their aftermath. In 1986, Gordon Ritchie, the son of a former Canadian Ambassador to Washington and himself a career civil service mandarin, was recruited as Canada's ambassador for trade negotiations and deputy chief negotiator at the f...