Bureaucrats ‘literally working around the clock’ to prep for NAFTA talks

'We’re in a period of great uncertainty,' one top bureaucrat told Senators last month. The foreign ministry is preparing for anything and everything as a trade renegotiation inches closer.
Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump walk with each other at the White House on Feb. 13.
The federal government is working day and night to prepare itself as the new Trump administration in the United States eyes restructuring the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to a senior official in Canada’s foreign ministry. “If my colleague...

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