NAFTA deal a win for Trudeau, but not a get-out-of-jail-free card

Trudeau is now a little less vulnerable to the opposition argument that he is a poor economic manager. But he won’t have time to rest on his laurels, as many businesses gear up for a fight against Bill C-69.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland speak to reporters Oct. 1 about the agreement-in-principle on trade with the United States and Mexico they clinched the night before. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

October 3, 2018

OTTAWA—Justin Trudeau has a trade deal. Over the weekend, Canada and the United States were able to come to a preliminary agreement on a successor to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), henceforth to be known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). While its acronym coul...

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