In the introduction to Does North America Exist? Governing the Continent after NAFTA and 9/11, Stephen Clarkson relates how, over the several years he worked on this long investigation of the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement on our continental life together, his “nearest and dearest” took to calling it his…
William Watson
William Watson teaches economics at McGill University and writes columns for the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and the Financial Post.
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William Watson
My father died two years ago, suddenly but not unexpectedly: he was six weeks short of 84. When, a few months later, my mother decided to move in with one of my two sisters and her family, we siblings faced a problem many children of literate members of that generation face, namely, what to do with my father’s…