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Canada is open to doing more business with China now that a trading agreement with the United States and Mexico has been finalized, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland has filled two new senior diplomatic posts to lead the Canadian consulates in Detroit and Los Angeles.

China says it deplores a controversial new clause in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that calls on the countries to notify each other if they enter into trade talks with a "non-market" economy.

Canada has not included the United States in an upcoming meeting aimed at saving the international trading system because it doesn't share the views of the 13 invited countries, says the new Canadian trade minister.

"We have a supply management system that continues to be very much in place to protect both our agricultural sector and our consumers. This is something that continues. We have made modifications to the way it works, but we also know that it is something that will ensure the viability and the strength of supply management for years to come."

Was Canada's pursuit of a "progressive" trade agenda a help or a hindrance during the marathon negotiations with the U.S. and Mexico on a new continental free trade pact?

Next year's federal election campaign will likely be the nastiest one yet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, October 2, 2018.

Canada says it is still committed to addressing climate change in its trade relations with the United States through “ongoing negotiations” of a separate environmental agreement.

Canadian dairy farmers have panned the renegotiated trade pact between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, saying the new deal will undercut the industry by limiting exports and opening up the market to more American products.

Canada has slipped six places to 55th spot on an annual list of global freedom-of-information rankings, and is now tied with Bulgaria and Uruguay.

With the release of the text of the U.S.-Mexico trade agreement expected on Friday, September 28, 2018, the political pressure is mounting on Canada to join a new North American Free Trade Agreement.

A former U.S. ambassador to Canada is taking the battle for this year's midterm elections north of the border, calling on more than 600,000 Americans living in this country to register for a vote that is gearing up to be a referendum on Republican Donald Trump's presidency.

Thirteen months is an "absolutely normal" time frame for a task as complex as modernizing North American trade, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday, September 19, 2018, as she notched another day on the road towards a new NAFTA deal with the United States and Mexico.

Chrystia Freeland was not happy.

The pressure on the Liberals to loosen protections around Canada's dairy sector took new focus on Sunday, September 9, 2018, as the key stumbling block in North American Free Trade Agreement talks came under scrutiny and spin on political talk shows on both sides of the border.