Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is starting a new day of meetings with her U.S. counterpart after a late night of talks to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Canada and the U.S. agreed on Tuesday, August 28, 2018, that one of NAFTA's most significant hurdles — defining the content rules of North American autos — may have been resolved by Monday's side deal between the Trump administration and Mexico.
Canada's protected supply-managed dairy industry emerged as a major 11th-hour irritant as the Trudeau government returned on Tuesday, August 28, 2018, to what could be the final, pivotal round of talks to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Parti Quebecois Leader Jean-Francois Lisee has invited leaders of Quebec's other political parties to sign a common declaration to protect — "at all costs" — supply management and Quebec culture.
Top members of Canada's negotiating team are making an abrupt return to the NAFTA table in Washington where they're already facing stiff pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to join a bilateral trade deal his administration struck Monday with Mexico.
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is talking tough on the question of supply management now that the focus switches to Canada after a new trade deal has been reached between the United States and Mexico.
Donald Trump said on Monday, August 27, 2018, that the United States and Mexico have reached a bilateral trade "understanding" that could lead to an overhaul — or perhaps the termination — of the three-country North American Free Trade Agreement.
John McCain, an avowed free-trader and longtime supporter of expanding the North American Free Trade Agreement, was remembered by Canadian politicians as a friend to Canada who reached across political boundaries to do what he felt was right.
The hurry-up-and-wait uncertainty surrounding Canada's return to the NAFTA talks is entering a new week as Ottawa's partners in the trilateral deal push forward with their one-on-one negotiations.