hemispherically. north america from a creativity perspective, from an innovation perspective, this is the most competitive region in the world. right. and i think that donald trump is bumping up against reality here and good because this would have been terrible for the country and the american workers. the reason i want to talk to you about this is i remember actually barack obama and hillary clinton both promised to renegotiate nafta or said they were going to renegotiate nafta in 2008. you ve got the situation where if you poll americans on these trade deals, they re quite skeptical of them. there s also good macro economic data to show they have had an affect in rising inequality, which is not to say they haven t been a boon overall. but i wonder how much this sort of sense that we re seeing across the entire sort of west, right, of people feel like they re not in control and the globalists are how much does this add fuel to the fire when donald trump runs on i m going to g
their versions of the singh wednesday of eve sequence of events would be a little different. i suspect you re right. this is a $500 billion a area trading relationship with mexico. it s upwards of nearly $1 trillion with canada. for 35 states, the number one trading partner is canada. for the ones that it s not, in the number two, and the rest, the trading relationship is with mexico. this would have plunged the american economy into a recession. it would have tanked the stock market. there are millions and millions of american jobs dependent on the free flow of trade and goods across the borders in north america. and i think increasingly, chris, we talk about competitiveness over the next decade, the decade after that, and we look hemispherically. north america from a creativity perspective, from an innovation perspective, this is the most competitive region in the world. right. and i think that donald trump is bumping up against reality