The Honourable Erin O\u2019Toole, Conservative Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement:<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cToday\u2019s news of a trade agreement between the United States and Mexico confirms that the Trudeau government has failed to advance Canada\u2019s trade interests.<\/em><\/p>\n For years, Conservatives have asked for a more serious approach from the Trudeau government on NAFTA, but the Liberals have preferred domestic political posturing over advancing our economic interests.<\/em><\/p>\n The fact that we have so many questions regarding the application of the US-Mexico deal to the Canadian auto industry and other key sectors of our economy shows why it was critical for Canada to be at the negotiation table as a serious partner.<\/em><\/p>\n I am troubled that despite the fact that NAFTA grew out of the Canada-US free trade agreement, Mexico appears to have usurped our role as the key US trade partner.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n SOURCE – MP Erin O\u2019Toole, Conservative Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Honourable Erin O\u2019Toole, Conservative Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement: \u00a0 \u201cToday\u2019s news of a trade agreement between the United States and Mexico confirms that the Trudeau government has failed to advance Canada\u2019s trade interests. For years, Conservatives have asked for a more serious approach from the Trudeau government on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1662],"class_list":["post-15084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","tag-nafta-trade"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 04:08:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15085,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084\/revisions\/15085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}