The Hill Times: Carney (Nepean, Ont.) said a culmination of disputes led negotiations with the U.S. to fall apart last week. But a poison pill curtailing this country’s other trade relationships is something to which Canada could never attach its signature, say former Canadian diplomats.
“We’re supposed to accept that they can do to us whatever it is they want, however spontaneously they decide, and that not only are we not to retaliate, but we’re not to look for alternatives,” said former Canadian diplomat Roy Norton, who twice served as consul general in Chicago and Detroit…