Still no sign U.S. gets the whole point about free trade

Canada has little incentive to agree to a new NAFTA loaded with concessions that will cripple its economy.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has blamed the existing NAFTA trade deal for killing hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs. Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, who is overseeing the NAFTA renegotiation for her government, has said Canada was committed to working towards 'a good deal, not just any deal.' The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia and photograph by Lance Cheung courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

August 23, 2017

OTTAWA—No one seemed to notice United States President Donald Trump’s analysis of his trade negotiation aims at a Buy American event at the White House last month. Trump, who looks at trade through a simplistic protectionist lens and accuses the rest of the world of mulcting the United States, ...

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