Some politicos, dairy groups say the feds promised new NAFTA would start in August, while trade experts say start date was being hurried by Trump

Conservative Senate Leader Don Plett says he was given 'a direct promise' from the government that the CUSMA wouldn't enter into force before August.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has been tasked with stickhandling the renegotiations of NAFTA and the implementation of the updated trade agreement since U.S. President Donald Trump announced his desire to see it amended. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

May 6, 2020

Some opposition Parliamentarians say the federal government misled them on when the new NAFTA will come into force, believing they had an assurance that the updated trade pact would start at the beginning of August and not a month before, to the detriment of Canada's dairy sector. But trade experts...

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