As we look at the potential failure of the NAFTA negotiations, I wonder if we have prepared ourselves adequately with an alternative strategy. Over the last last three decades, the USA has persuaded us to fully integrate our economy with theirs. We have lost most of our secondary processing and manufacturing industries, and now specialize in resource and mineral extraction which are exported mainly to support the massive US economy.  Now that we have integrated our economies in this manner, the US has decided to tear up the deal we made, and offer new “terms”.  We have become far too dependent on them, and now look really stupid.  As the negotiations proceed, we will realize our mistake, if we don’t already. With the benefit…