The Canadian View on NAFTA Replacement

Guest: Stéphane Lessard, Canada Consul General for the US Mountain West Region It took more than a year of on-again-off-again negotiating and tough talk for the US, Mexico and Canada to come to an agreement on altering NAFTA – the North American Free Trade Agreement. President Trump insisted it be renegotiated or the US would pull out. The US and Mexico got on the same page about a month before the October 1st deadline. Canada signed on just days before the October 1 deadline. What was at stake, and what took Canada so long to make a deal?