how did canada benefit from nafta 
after nafta went into full effect u s and mexican investments in canada tripled u s investment alone grew from 70 billion in 1993 to more than 368 billion in 2013 2the bottom linealthough there were significant gains and serious losses debate continues surrounding nafta s impact while the u s canada and mexico all experienced increased trade economic growth and higher wages since nafta s implementation experts disagree on how much the agreement contributed to if at all u s manufacturing jobs immigration and the price of consumer goods the actual impact of the agreement is hard to isolate especially from the lingering effects of the significant economic technological and industrial trends in the past quarter century including the great recession nafta did not affect all three of its member nations to the same degree or in the same ways 