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Posted AT 4:57 AM EDT on 07/03/08

Please don't throw us outta the NAFTA patch

From Friday's Globe and Mail

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.

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