{"id":77079,"date":"2017-04-23T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/lets-get-going-on-nafta-renegotiation-says-marc-garneau.html"},"modified":"2017-04-23T15:31:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:31:16","slug":"lets-get-going-on-nafta-renegotiation-says-marc-garneau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/lets-get-going-on-nafta-renegotiation-says-marc-garneau.html","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s get going on NAFTA renegotiation, says Marc Garneau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chair of the cabinet committee on Canada\/U.S. relations says the sooner\u00a0things get going on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement the better.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Minister Marc Garneau said the uncertainty caused by U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s anti\u2013NAFTA rhetoric is hurting business on both sides of the border<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope we will get this under way fairly quickly, because in the United States and in Canada those who are interested in trading and investing are living with a certain amount of uncertainty,&#8221; Garneau told CBC Radio&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The House<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/trudeau-bloomberg-dairy-trump-1.4077625\">Dairy protected &#8216;for good reason,&#8217; Trudeau says; Trump calls Canada a &#8216;disgrace&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/wherry-trudeau-trump-listener-1.4077804\">Can Trudeau talk Trump out of trade fight? Maybe he won&#8217;t have to<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u200b&#8221;The sooner we can discuss the specifics, the better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Garneau\u00a0made the comments following Donald Trump&#8217;s switch to an aggressive tone towards Canada when it comes to trade.<\/p>\n<p>Two days after openly criticizing Canada&#8217;s dairy industry during a speech in Wisconsin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/trump-lumber-nafta-energy-1.4077856\">Trump doubled down, and added more sectors to his list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t going to do this,&#8221; Trump said from the Oval Office. &#8220;I was in Wisconsin the other day, and I want to end, and add, by saying that Canada, what they&#8217;ve done to our dairy farm workers is a disgrace. It&#8217;s a disgrace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t let Canada or anybody else take advantage and do what they did to our workers and to our farmers. And again I want to also just mention: included in there is lumber, timber and energy,&#8221; he went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>Garneau\u00a0told\u00a0<em>The House<\/em>\u00a0he has no idea what the president meant by those remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to wait for the details on this,&#8221; Garneau\u00a0said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland\u00a0issued a statement following Trump&#8217;s criticism saying that the federal government supports &#8220;rules-based&#8221; trade and will continue to defend Canada&#8217;s interests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.4080584.1492807171!\/cpImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_620\/trump-financial-regulations.jpg\" alt=\"Trump Financial Regulations\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">President Donald Trump openly criticized Canada&#8217;s trade practices on two occasions this week. (Susan Walsh\/Associated Press)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chair of the cabinet committee on Canada\/U.S. relations says the sooner\u00a0things get going on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement the better. Transport Minister Marc Garneau said the uncertainty caused by U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s anti\u2013NAFTA rhetoric is hurting business on both sides of the border &#8220;I hope we will get this under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-77079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}