Trade deal with U.S., Mexico muted political win for Trudeau Liberals: observers

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It’s too early to tell what the political fallout from the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement detailed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, on Oct. 1 at the National Press Theatre, will have on the 2019 election, strategists say. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew MeadeThe Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

October 3, 2018

After more than a year of gruelling negotiations over a signature trilateral trade agreement with an often mercurial administration, the Trudeau government emerged with a deal that, some trade observers say, is the best one it could have reached, handing it a politica...

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