Conservatives willing to fight for NAFTA abroad, but Trudeau needs to prove he has a plan at home

The Liberal government has to strike the right chord on NAFTA, or Canadian workers will suffer.

Clockwise from top left, Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer, Conservative trade critic Dean Allison, Conservative deputy leader Lisa Raitt and Conservative agriculture critic Luc Berthold are all reportedly heading to Washington, D.C., this week to talk up NAFTA ahead of the sixth round of negotiations in Montreal next week. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and The Hill Times file photos

Opinion

BY CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER ANDREW SCHEER

January 17, 2018

The following is an edited excerpt from remarks Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer delivered to the Mississauga Board of Trade on Jan. 12. Negotiations over the future of NAFTA are still underway. And they’re not going well. The government is signaling they expect the U.S. to try t...

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