Can Trump really undo NAFTA on a whim?

Questions remain over whether the U.S. president can withdraw from the trade agreement without support from the rest of the American lawmakers.

In his bid to put ‘America First,’ U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to pull out of NAFTA if he doesn’t like the renegotiated terms. But, Elizabeth May writes, he may not have the power to do so unilaterally. Department of Homeland Security photo via Barry Bahler

Opinion

BY ELIZABETH MAY

January 17, 2018

I am not losing sleep about the threats to NAFTA from the United States administration. There are serious questions about whether U.S. President Donald Trump has the legal authority to unilaterally pull the U.S. out of NAFTA. And if he did, wouldn’t the previous Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement re...

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