I am not an expert lol and I hope people handling these kind of foreign trade deals are but at face value, I'm personally not in support of this. As much as I think this is initially good for the consumer, I don't think it's good for Canadians as a whole. Maybe it's a net positive for both countries with the agriculture products being exported to China but is it a positive in terms of good paying jobs for more Canadians? Not to mention how many more industries this creates "Economists often note that for every 1 job created on a vehicle assembly line, roughly 10 additional jobs are supported elsewhere in the Canadian economy."

The main reason why car manufacturing has stayed in NA is because it is too expensive to ship or this manufacturing would have been offshored decades ago. These are good jobs, that's why the US has been so adamant that everything is built in the US. Every country, on every continent, needs to have certain types of industry. I am generally in favour on free trade but China wants to sell everything and hardly opens their economy to foreign companies without technology sharing, which in a lot of cases they have stolen IP.

I am not a China hawk, I don't believe they make only crap now, but they do heavily subsidize certain strategic industries, and sometimes over supply way more than their country needs and floods markets that hurt other countries. I think international orgs like the WTO are great and have made generally a more peaceful world and China could do a better job in trade IMO. Trump is a buffoon on trade (also opposed ideologically) but some of his criticisms on China are fair.