In Jason Fekete's "Free-trade Swiftly Moving to Forefront of Canada's Priorities," John Weekes comments, "I don't ever recall a time, except maybe during the free-trade debate (of the late 1980s), when the government has put so much stock in trade negotiations at the centre of its economic policy." This article was published in the Financial Post, Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen, Winnipeg Free Press, Edmonton Journal and Vancouver Province.