Prime Minister Mark Carney admitted a broader trade agreement with U.S. President Donald Trump is no longer within reach and gave his strongest signal yet that talks to lift 25-per-cent auto tariffs will be punted to next year’s review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement.
The prime minister, speaking on the eve of a nine-day trip to Asia where he will meet Trump, said he is still working to get a better deal for autoworkers and that “starts with working up the supply chain on (eliminating tariffs on) steel and aluminum. We go to that, so it’s part of a bigger set of negotiations with the Americans.”
