“I came back alarmed,” said the Oct. 25 letter signed by Harper, and sent to clients of his firm Harper & Associates. “I fear that the NAFTA re-negotiation is going very badly. I also believe that President (Donald) Trump’s threat to terminate NAFTA is not a bluff… I believe this threat is real. 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: National Post October 27, 2017 22:13 UTC