Let there be no doubt, Trump is the symptom, not the problem. Vance is the President in Waiting (I predict he will be POTUS after the November elections), and he will be far worse then Trump ever could be. Trump is knee-jerk, Vance is cold and calculating.
But the good news is, based on the mud-slinging the Republican party is doing, they are really. really afraid they will lose the Senate AND the House in November, and they are trying to shore up support in America for their failed policies. They really, really need this trade deal, and Carney knows it. Unless they get a trade deal before November, the American political scene will look very, very different.
The Avro Arrow is a bad example because it has nothing to do with neoliberal economics.
It was ostensibly about being over budget, but that was just the public claim at the time.
It was a high speed interceptor designed to chase down Russian bombers coming over the arctic circle. The Americans knew that ICBMs were the new threat and no interceptor could ever chase one down. They told Diefenbaker as much.