How has the NAFTA affected Canadas GDP?
It has increased it, as the GDP is essentially the sum of the dollar value of all transactions. A wider market for both Canadian consumers and Canadian businesses, whether as buyers or sellers and therefore the opportunity for cheaper goods and services. Free trade is good for the Canada and so is NAFTA. What Justice Robert H. Jackson – a Democrat from New York appointed by FDR – said about interstate free trade in Duckworth v. Arkansas, 314 U.S. 390 (1941) is equally applicable to international free trade: – The opinion of the Court solves the present case through a construction of the interstate commerce power. It regards this liquor as a legitimate subject of a lawful commerce, and then, because of its special characteristics, approves this admittedly novel permit system, and thus expands the power of the state to regulate such lawful commerce beyond anything this Court has yet approved. The extent to which state legislation may be allowed to affect the conduct of interstate busines
