Canada: NAFTA talks should continue

Published June 14, 2018 9:31pm ET



Canada said Thursday it would continue to participate in talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement throughout the summer, signaling a cooling down of tensions between the U.S. and Canada following a public spat between the countries’ leaders last weekend.

“We decided … to continue our negotiations on NAFTA,” Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland told Canadian television following a meeting in Washington with her counterpart, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. “We will be working hard over the summer. We didn’t set specific dates today. We talked about following up on setting up specific dates for meetings and that is what we are going to do.”

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