Canada's environment minister met with key stakeholders in Toronto Thursday as battle lines take shape during the first week of the three-country talks and Trump’s trade czar warns of major changes.
The future of Canada's more than one million automotive jobs has emerged as a critical part of what's at stake at the NAFTA renegotiation table in Washington.
As NAFTA 2.0 negotiations begin, an old trade issue with a strange name has emerged to create unlikely allies across the political spectrum and staunch defenders in the oilpatch.
The Liberal government wants to bring its feminism to NAFTA talks, building on an agreement between Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump to support women entrepreneurs to get gender rights in the deal.
"Trump has this sort of old-fashioned theory of negotiations, which is that the big guy always wins. It's not the way it works," says Ted Alden, senior fellow at the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.
Chrystia Freeland will push for additional labour and environmental sections when she shares broad strokes Monday of Canada's goals for the upcoming NAFTA talks.