Running for Your Life: NAFTA notes

OK, there’s a Canada-US-Mexico trade deal. But here is the backgrounder:

Recall that NAFTA was formed to govern all trade and business relations, including sports and the arts.

In the case of sports, there are lessons that conceivably translate into other areas: manufacturing, natural resources, agriculture …

How in the world can the US and Canada find common ground, agree on even the basic terms of to come to a trilateral agreement, if

1/ In Canada’s national sport, ice hockey, the social-political axis spins on facts like this: The last preseason game been pro teams in Ottawa and Montreal served as a platform to report that in a week the team, players and fans had led efforts to raise more than $300,000 for those in need following freak tornados in the Ottawa region. The money would be used to address two areas: food security and mental health.

2/ In America’s national sport, football, courageous players kneel during the singing of the national anthem to protest the country’s crisis in social justice, and rather than the act serve as a hero’s call to address the problem, it divides the country and worsens its social and political divide.

Nope. Nothing to say to each other here. Whatever was signed isn’t worth the paper upon which I’m writing this note.

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