Canada Presses for Wider Trade Agreement in Talks With US

Canada-US Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said the government wants to resolve trade frictions with the Trump administration as part of a comprehensive agreement, rather than through “one-off” deals.

LeBlanc said the irritants US officials raise privately are the same ones they’ve outlined publicly. A recent report by US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer’s office flagged Canada’s supply-managed dairy system, regulationsaffecting major US technology firms and other long-standing trade concerns.

“If we’re going to resolve some of these issues that Ambassador Greer referred to, Canada is ready and willing to do that work,” LeBlanc told a parliamentary committee Thursday.

Dominic LeBlanc

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