“I fear that the NAFTA renegotiation is going very badly. I also believe that President (Donald) Trump’s threat to terminate NAFTA is not a bluff ... Make no mistake: Wilbur Ross and Robert Lighthizer will be very happy with this letter.”The memo accuses the Canadian government of stubbornness on several fronts. They say there was never a softwood settlement on the table, and that claims to the contrary are wrong. “He’s basically saying we need to make more concessions to the Americans, turn our backs on workers, turn our backs on softwood workers ... put thousands of aerospace workers out of work.”

Source: thestar October 27, 2017 22:40 UTC