Inexperience of British trade team created ‘frustration’ during early talks for a potential Canada-U.K. pact, experts say

Rideau Potomac Strategy Group's Eric Miller says 'a number' of Canadians have been offered positions on the British team, but turned them down due to the inadequate salary being offered.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has committed Britain to leaving the EU on Oct. 31, even without a withdrawal agreement in place. Flickr photograph courtesy of Andrew Parsons

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BY NEIL MOSS

August 7, 2019

Before Canada-U.K. preliminary trade talks cooled, the inexperience of the British negotiation team complicated the discussions, observers say. “They have never done this before,” said Eric Miller, a former senior policy adviser to the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and current head of t...

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