In a NAFTA renegotiation team reunion, Freeland’s Finance Department adds Steve Verheul

Widely praised across the partisan spectrum, Steve Verheul has been called an 'architect' of Canada's trade policy.

Deputy Prime Minister and then-minister of intergovernmental affairs Chrystia Freeland is pictured alongside Steve Verheul at the House Committee on International Trade in February 2018, as the implementation bill for the new NAFTA was being shepherded through Parliament. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

January 26, 2022

The pair that is credited with saving Canada’s North American trade pact are reuniting in the Finance Department, as the chief negotiator of the new NAFTA, Steve Verheul, has joined Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s department. Widely praised across the partisan divide, Verheul has been call...

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