Editorial: Free trade deal gets some key points right

Trade agreements between nations – even nations run by thoughtful, experienced leaders – are inevitably born of compromises between competing political agendas. Just ask the Mulroney-era team that negotiated NAFTA with the Americans and Mexicans in 1992.
Now imagine how much more difficult it is to cut a deal when one of the national leaders involved is unpredictable, temperamental and often uninformed. Seen in that light, the trade pact Canada has reached with the United States (and