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Canada's Freeland 'Cautiously Optimistic' on Nafta Talks
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Canada wants a Nafta deal as soon it can get one. Until then, every day of talks is better than the alternative.
Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Nafta chief, rattles off all the barriers that lie ahead. Canada and the U.S. are at odds on the very philosophies of trade, immigration, protectionism -- and, of course, on the merits of Nafta itself, flawed and aged as it is, that Donald Trump has been threatening to kill.