Fall preview: international trade

Like the Conservatives before them, the Liberals running Canada’s government have their hands in several free trade agreements that have industry groups salivating, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Europe chief among them.
Opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement demonstrate outside of a House Trade Committee meeting in Vancouver on April 18.
OTTAWA—Trade deals are typically advanced at a glacial pace in the best of times, and the Liberals have taken a mixed approach to moving along the deals they inherited from the Conservative government. While frustrating for the private sector and official opposition, that may be prudent given the...

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