Blame game for Canadian officials as US edges toward NAFTA pullout

Published January 12, 2018 11:56pm ET



Canadian leaders are starting to point fingers over who is to blame for the possibility that the U.S. will pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

On Friday, the top opposition leader in the Canadian parliament, Conservative Party head Andrew Scheer, accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of bungling the negotiations by not taking President Trump’s threats to pull out of the trade deal seriously until recently.

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