For now, it is Trump not Trudeau who will take the heat if NAFTA talks fail
That is not to say that the prime minister is not under pressure from a variety of potentially conflicting constituencies to limit the potential damage of the ongoing talks to Canada’s trade position and its economy or that a resolution would not come with a political price tag.
MONTREAL—If U.S. president Donald Trump’s threat to exclude Canada from a post-NAFTA U.S.-Mexico trade deal was meant to drive a wedge within Justin Trudeau’s free trade coalition it has so far failed.
In the days since Trump formalized his intention to submit to...
