will have soon leveled off and jobs would be lost in Canada as businesses moved to Mexico. This has been seen to be case with the United States. "Although U.S. exports to Mexico have grown since NAFTA went into effect, the Clinton Administration’s own numbers showed that imports from Mexico have gone through the roof; a U.S. trade surplus of $1.7 billion in 1993 spiraled downward into a deficit of $15.4 billion by 1995" (Carbaugh). Not only has NAFTA caused a loss in jobs in all three countries, but it has also caused a decrease in job benefits for workers in Canada and the United States. Before NAFTA went into effect, the corporate group USA*NAFTA claimed that "NAFTA itself will improve working conditions by generating economic growth, which will enable all three countries to provide more jobs with higher pay in a better working environment"(Carbaugh). However, this proved not to be the case. In actuality, NAFTA has given corporations more power to lower wages and decrease working conditions. "The most direct method is through ‘whipsaw bargaining,’ or threatening to shift production to Mexico unless workers agreed to concessions" (Dentzer). In a situation where one’s job is at risk, one must accept wage and benefit cuts. It seems as though since the implementation of NAFTA, undermined workers rights. Even though productivity growth has occurred in many corporations, "In Canada, as well as in the U.S., real wages are sluggish and the amount of full-time workers living in poverty continues to grow" (Anderson). There should never be any workers, let alone full-time workers, living in poverty. In Canada as in any country, poverty should not exist among the working class. This is definitely not the case in Mexico where NAFTA has slammed the middle class back into poverty. Another thing, which NAFTA affects, is the environment. NAFTA supporters promised that the agreement would lead to increased investment in environ...
