WASHINGTON — The Canadian government produced a paper shortly after Donald Trump’s election outlining in broad strokes how the incoming U.S. president could have pursued a quick, substantive, and successful renegotiation of NAFTA. But the resulting research, obtained by The Canadian Press through the Access to Information Act, offers a peek down a road not travelled. Gathered by departmental bureaucrats, it was signed by deputy trade minister Tim Sargent and date-stamped Dec. 30, 2016. A spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says a quick fix was never within reach. “In trade negotiations there is no such thing as a quick win,” Alex Lawrence says.

Source: National Post November 02, 2017 19:18 UTC