Instructions: You are an economist working for the department of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECC). The Minister for ECC needs to decide whether to support or not support his/her colleagues in Cabinet concerning discussions on increasing, decreasing, or keeping the number of free trade agreements between Canada and the rest of the world unchanged. The context is as follows. One of the most important policy debates of the last two decades surrounds the impact of trade liberalization on the environment. Brought to the fore during the NAFTA negotiations of 1993 between the governments of Mexico, Canada and the United States, the debate over how to best mitigate environmental damage associated with the scale effects of increased economic activity fiercely divided the environmental lobbyhalf arguing in favour of market-based solutions to alleviating trade-exacerbated environmental harms (recall the Environmental Kuznets Curve), and the other half in favour of a more protectionist policy approach. As an unbiased economic policy analyst, you are asked to write a formal 2 to 3-page brieng note (approximately 1000 words) seeking a decision from the Minister, based on your recommendations, on action regarding the support for or opposition to the Minister's colleagues in Cabinet concerning discussions on increasing, decreasing, or keeping the number of free trade agreements between Canada and the rest of the world unchanged. Note that the Minister has read an article (part of it is found below) and now, the Minister is unsure whether free trade was responsible for the negative environmental outcomes in Mexico. Your briefing note should present economic arguments based on facts and may require a rebuttal/extension of the information found in the article below, should you deem it lacking in fundamental economic theory based on what you have learned in class throughout the semester. Of importance, your brieng note should clearly state options and your recommendation for increasing, decreasing, or keeping the number of free trade agreements between Canada and the rest of the world unchanged