Lyin' Brian Mulroney gifted Canada's working class "free trade," and my butt still hurts

The sales pitch went something like this; Yankee money and know-how, Mexican labour, and Canadian resources would invevitably coalesce into a world-beating economic bloc, bringing oodles of prosperity to all of us! Yes indeedy! Sure, we’d lose a few jobs to Mexico, due to their tendency to work for $20 per week instead of our $20 per hour, but experts assured us we’d only lose the shit jobs like manufacturing cars and stuff. Really good high-tech jobs would replace them, because Mexicans are too stupid to do them. Lyin’ Brian didn’t have to spell out the too-stupid part. It was implied. The only people who never bought it were the shop floor workees in Canadian factories. We knew from the get-go the Mexicans could do anything we could do. They just did it way cheaper. Free trade was the beginning of the end for Canada’s working class. Thanks Brian!