Canada, Mexico shrug off Trump threat to blow up NAFTA
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is playing down the latest threat from President Donald Trump that the North American Free Trade Agreement is a bad deal from which the U.S. will likely exit.
Trump’s latest threat to “terminate” NAFTA came during a campaign-style speech at a rally in Arizona on Tuesday night, when he told the crowd he didn’t think a new deal on NAFTA good enough for the United States was possible.
It is not the first time he has made such a threat, but it is the first time since Canada, the U.S. and Mexico sat down to start renegotiating the 24-year-old trade agreement.
Trudeau’s response Wednesday afternoon was to stay the course.