{"id":89982,"date":"2017-09-07T00:59:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T00:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/midweek-podcast-is-any-progress-being-made-on-nafta.html"},"modified":"2017-09-07T00:59:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T00:59:25","slug":"midweek-podcast-is-any-progress-being-made-on-nafta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/midweek-podcast-is-any-progress-being-made-on-nafta.html","title":{"rendered":"Midweek podcast: Is any progress being made on NAFTA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>&#8216;Record pace&#8217;: Canada to host NAFTA Round 3 in Ottawa later this month<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Especially after reports that the NAFTA\u00a0discussions were<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">\u00a0hitting a series of early roadblocks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week for the midweek podcast\u00a0we caught up with\u00a0Alex Panetta from the Canadian Press who is still in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt like the stories I wrote this week were almost a play in two acts. The truth is nothing\u00a0significant\u00a0has been tackled yet,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>As Panetta wrote about earlier this week, sources say a recurring pattern involves one country raising a prized priority only to have other parties systematically refuse to engage on the topic,<\/p>\n<p>\u200b&#8221;What&#8217;s not normal about these [negotiations] is that they&#8217;re saying they want to have it done by December. You can&#8217;t afford too\u00a0many more negotiating rounds where you don&#8217;t touch anything difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Panetta said they have made progress on some of the simpler\u00a0 files.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think two dozen texts got tabled\u00a0at\u00a0this round. And so they&#8217;re starting to work on the backbone of what will be a new NAFTA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Jitters in Kelowna<\/h2>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.4276414.1504651677!\/cpImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_620\/morneau-vancouver-20170905.jpg\" alt=\"Morneau Vancouver 20170905\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">Finance Bill Morneau Morneau says doctors shouldn&#8217;t pay less tax than the nurses who work for them. (Ben Nelms\/Canadian Press)<\/p>\n<p>Summer might be coming to an end, but the Liberals are feeling the heat over tax changes they proposed back in July.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>Trudeau vows to stay the course on small biz tax changes, but open to tweaks<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finance Minister Bill Morneau has started pushing back against mounting criticism, some of it coming from within the Liberal party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The issue has\u00a0been top of mind at the caucus retreat in Kelowna, B.C., this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most Liberal MPs, based on the conversations I&#8217;ve had, have been inundated with calls from small busisnesses,&#8221; said CBC reporter John Paul Tasker, who&#8217;s in Keowna covering the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Tasker said some MPs have told him in private that their government hasn&#8217;t done a good job selling this plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s jitters. The small busiseness tax changes have really dominated the parliamentary press coverage for the last month or so,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re feeling that some of this, some of\u00a0this\u00a0media headache, comes down to [Finance Minister Bill Morneau.] And there&#8217;s also a feeling that the\u00a0government\u00a0just overestimated just\u00a0how\u00a0big the blow back would be for this kind of change.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/thehouse\/midweek-podcast-is-any-progress-being-made-on-nafta-1.4277116?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Record pace&#8217;: Canada to host NAFTA Round 3 in Ottawa later this month Especially after reports that the NAFTA\u00a0discussions were\u00a0hitting a series of early roadblocks. This week for the midweek podcast\u00a0we caught up with\u00a0Alex Panetta from the Canadian Press who is still in Mexico City. &#8220;I felt like the stories I wrote this week were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-89982","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\/89982","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=89982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}