NAFTA and Trump’s Great Game show

Donald Trump has taken the North American Free Trade Agreement hostage to force outcomes that will benefit neither Americans nor Canadians.

Chrystia Freeland, pictured in May, was in Washington last week to negotiate a successor trade deal to NAFTA. Negotiations are set to continue on Sept. 5.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

September 5, 2018

Sometimes, during those occasional moments when I remind myself that I didn’t become a journalist to end up parsing tweets written by Donald Trump or, more despairingly, by someone ghost-ranting in his name, I tell myself it could be worse. I could be Chrystia Freeland, who surely didn’t become ...

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