text: Hear, hear! Sheila Copps and Don Boudria and others said in 1988 that free trade with the U.S.A. would ruin our country and might even lead to an American takeover . Tears in their eyes, screaming at Mulroney for being a heartless creep who seemed to be working for the Americans. Well, several years after that, Chretien's new Liberal government leaped on-board with free trade - smartly expanding it to NAFTA. I hope that the current government plays this "game" right over the next couple of months.