Terence Corcoran: The (impossible) North American dream

Terence Corcoran: The (impossible) North American dream

Happy North America Day! Don’t laugh. There was a time when policy-makers, political theorists, business leaders, economists and politicians would have raised glasses of trilateral Canadian whiskey, American bourbon and Mexican tequila to toast a grand concept: “Here’s to the union of our three glorious nations into a North American Community!” Some even took the idea further: “Let us drink to a United North America!”