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On the tenth anniversary of the controversial Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, one of its architects released this engrossing and remarkably candid inside account of the tumultuous course of those negotiations and their aftermath.<br> <br> In 1986, Gordon Ritchie, the son of a former Canadian Ambassador to Washington and himself a career civil service mandarin, was recruited as Canada's ambassador for trade negotiations and deputy chief negotiator at the free trade talks. For the next two and a half years, Ritchie was at the centre of the tortuous drama that produced the FTA, a treaty that remains the single most far-reaching economic initiative affecting the lives of Canadians.<br> <br> The story is enlivened by a remarkable cast of characters. Initiated by an ambitious Brian Mulroney, then Prime Minister of Canada, and a distracted Ronald Reagan, then President of the United States, the action soon shifted to the team captains: the pugnacious Simon Reisman for Canada, the slippery Peter Murphy for the US, both backed by supporting players and all with rival agendas of their own. Throughout Ritchie's clear-eyed analysis runs an extraordinary tale of the interplay, across and around

Author

Ritchie, Gordon

Publisher

Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781551990156

Subjects

Business