The Twitter-posted proposal of Richard Miles, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, typifies the general tone. Trump may have been serious in wanting to signal a new era in North American trade by banishing the NAFTA name. Chris Sands, head of the Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins University, issued the Twitter challenge to which Miles responded. Mike Fejes, a Canadian military officer and Carleton University doctoral student, responded to Sands’ call with LAFTA … Laurentian Free Trade Agreement. Trade lawyer Dan Ujczo, a close follower of the NAFTA renegotiation, proposed the upbeat WINA — Workers Initiative for North America — or NEWA — New Economic and Workers Agreement.

Source: National Post September 13, 2018 22:07 UTC