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With his signature on the Canada-U. S Free Trade Agreement only a week old, President Ronald Reagan took to the airwaves on this date in 1988 to laud the deal with Canada. In doing so, he admitted the agreement would not be supported in all quarters in both countries.
“This treaty is going to be overwhelmingly positive for both Canada and the United States,” Reagan told listeners. “This, however, does not mean that there will be no opposition. Whenever there is change, even for the better, there are segments of society that resist — small groups that have a special interest in keeping things the way they are — even at the expense of keeping everybody else from moving forward.
“Benjamin Franklin, our much-venerated Founding Father, saw this, even in his day,” President Reagan continued. “Talking about trade he noted: ‘The more free and unrestrained it is, the more it flourishes; and the happier are all the nations concerned in it. Most of the restraints put upon it,’’ he pointed out, ‘seem to have been the projects of particulars for their private interest, under pretense of public good.
Thanks to the hard-working archival staff at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, you can watch Reagan delivering this radio address at the link below:is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.
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