Canada has options if Trump kills NAFTA

Canada and Mexico could keep the shell of NAFTA alive until Trump is replaced. This is the strategy Japan hopes to use with the remnants of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal from which Trump has already removed the U.S.

U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured Sept. 19 at the opening day of the United Nations’ General Assembly’s annual general debate in New York. Photograph courtesy of the United Nations

Opinion

BY THOMAS WALKOM

October 16, 2017

TORONTO—If U.S. President Donald Trump deep-sixes the North American Free Trade Agreement, there are essentially three things that Canada can do. It can try to salvage a bilateral deal with the U.S. It can, in concert with Mexico, keep what remains of NAFTA on life support in the hope that Trump...

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