Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer brushed off suggestions that his party's campaign denouncing the Trudeau government's apology and payout to Omar Khadr in the U.S. media will negatively impact upcoming NAFTA negotiations. "The only person that's trying to make a link between those two issues is Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party," Scheer told reporters in Ottawa. "It's so clear why they are doing this because they realize they are so offside with the overwhelming majority of Canadians." "This is too important to fall into partisanship, for most people," Trudeau told reporters in Barrie, Ont., Thursday. In 2013, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair went to Washington D.C. and New York City to speak to U.S. officials about former prime minister Stephen Harper's climate change and oilsands policies.

Source: CBC News July 20, 2017 23:37 UTC