The head of the Cross Border Institute at the University of Windsor is worried about the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
US President-elect Donald Trump made the elimination of NAFTA a key platform during his campaign, vowing to "renegotiate it or tear it up."
Dr. Bill Anderson says "tearing up the deal would throw trade between Canada and the US into a tailspin. I would hope maybe there's some sort of an intermediate path he can take that would involve trying to re-open bits and pieces of it or something like that. I just don't know. It's a very scary prospect for Canada to reopen NAFTA."
But Anderson cautions that "the focus is not really Canada. Bear in mind when most Americans hear NAFTA and that sort of rhetoric, they's thinking about the relationship with Mexico more so than the relationship with Canada, but if you really took the U.S. out of NAFTA it would create all kinds of problems."
Anderson adds that one thing that's almost certain is that the Trans Pacific Partnership will not be ratified by the U.S.