Trudeau failing to gain traction on softwood lumber pact, say opposition MPs for logging districts

Critics are questioning the importance of the high-profile Obama-Trudeau 'bromance' in the absence of progress on the file.

Trade of Canadian softwood lumber has re-emerged as a political hot potato after a 2006 pact reached with the United States expired last fall. Then-international trade minister David Emerson, right, and U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab sign the since-expired softwood lumber deal in September 2006. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

August 3, 2016

The Liberal government is being accused of squandering an historic opportunity to leverage the close relationship between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama to secure a new agreement on softwood lumber with the United States by opposition MPs who represent ridings wit...

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