but, referring to the fta/nafta as the "sale of canada act" also seems quite prescient at this point.
i wish i knew more about these years myself, actually.
i do remember the tail end of mulroney's years as pm, if vaguely, but i was largely pre-political in those years. my first real memory of any kind of political anything in canada was the populist backlash against the gst in the 1993 election, when i was 12 years old. i don't even remember what i thought about this at the time, but i doubt it was very informed, or that i'd defend any arguments i made at the time. i remember the election, though - the widespread elation and euphoria at the defeat of mulroney, who was just widely despised by this point.
regardless, i'm reading through this right now.