Politics This Morning: Canada’s U.S. envoy to resign; Freeland to headline Calgary fundraiser

Plus, Health Canada officials are slated to give an update on the feds' plan to implement a pharmacare program.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is headlining a party fundraiser in Calgary tonight. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

August 9, 2019

Happy Friday, Canada's ambassador to the U.S., David MacNaughton, likely won't be around to see lawmakers in Ottawa or Washington, D.C., pass the new NAFTA deal that he helped negotiate. The U.S. envoy announced on Thursday that he's leaving D.C. at "summer's end" and returnin...

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