Campbell led the PC party in the 1993 election, where they were decimated by Jean Chrétien`s Liberal Party, which campaigned on a promise to renegotiate or cancel NAFTA. Chrétien then negotiated two supplementary agreements with Bush, who had undermined the LAC consultative process[18] [19] and had pledged to “accelerate” the signing before the end of his term, the time was up and had to hand over to the new President Bill Clinton the necessary ratification and signature of the transposition law. [20] The objective of NAFTA was to remove barriers to trade and investment between the United States, Canada and Mexico. The introduction of NAFTA on January 1, 1994, resulted in the immediate elimination of tariffs on more than half of Mexican exports to the United States and more than one-third of U.S. exports to Mexico.
