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NAFTA faces new risks as Trump mixes trade and immigration
By Les Whittington Jun. 5, 2019
Regardless of how the latest U.S.-Mexico tension unfolds, the takeaway for Canada is that the outcome of the NAFTA redo forced by Trump is as unpredictable as ever.
U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence said all the right things while in Ottawa to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau May 30, but it wasn’t long after he left that President Donald Trump unleashed a new broadside that puts the new NAFTA in peril, writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
OTTAWA—The general thinking was that U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence had popped up in Ottawa as part of a publicity campaign to promote support for U.S. Congressional approval of the new NAFTA deal—and to hold out an olive branch to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canadians.
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