How desperate is Trudeau to keep NAFTA? Pretty desperate

Justin Trudeau has concluded that Donald Trump is a monkey with a machine gun—and that, if there has to be a victim supplied at the NAFTA murder scene, well, Enrique Peña Nieto, c’mon down.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and then U.S. president Barack Obama, pictured in Ottawa on June 29 at the Three Amigos Summit.
TORONTO—How desperate is Justin Trudeau to keep NAFTA? Ask the Mexicans, now peering out from under the proverbial bus—where, you know, Trudeau pushed them. Pretty desperate. As they welcomed the Canadian prime minister to Mexico City on Thursday—and as they gamely extracted the Canadian-ma...

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