The Canadian Press: “NAFTA is an industrial partnership. It’s more than CETA,” said the minister, referring to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the European Union that took effect 10 years ago.
She said CETA was largely “about being able to export without tariffs.” Current discussions, she said, focus on developing deeper connections between Canadian and European industrial sectors like the ones NAFTA fostered for decades.
“We’re moving from a free-trade agreement to the idea of a common market,” she said in an interview that took place between working sessions and hallway discussions at the Canada-EU summit in Montreal…