If Canadians could have voted in the 2008 American elections, Barack Obama would have received a runaway landslide. So the slow realization that the new Administration and its allies in Congress are quite indifferent to the neighbors to the North is only slowly dawning on Canadians. It doesn't fit their expectations. They don't know what to do with the information.
The same goes for Mexico. You just don't hear a lot of protest about the trucking policy from Latino political groups, almost all of whom backed Obama. Punishing our Southern neighbor just doesn't fit their expectations, either. So they are mostly silent.
The adroit and insightful Deroy Murdock nails it. I'm sorry if the reality makes free trade advocate friends uncomfortable. But it turns out that the new crowd really does not completely respect NAFTA. Face it.
