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Canada’s wake-up call to the US on NAFTA

October 02, 2017 / PSU-AAUP

CNN
By Elizabeth Warren
October 1, 2017

(CNN) - President Donald Trump, a loud and persistent critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), recently began renegotiating this trade deal with Canada and Mexico.  The President promised to secure a fair deal for American Workers.  That sounds great.  After all, we don't think Americans should be forced to compete with poorly paid workers from Mexico or elsewhere, and we can demand that companies that want to trade with us lift wages, benefits, and health and safety standards for their foreign workers.

So it probably came as a shock that one of Canada's main goals in this renegotiation is to get the United States to treat our own workers better.  Canada doesn't want its workers competing with poorly-treated laborers -- including workers in the United States.  And they have a specific target in mind.

Read the full opinion piece on the CNN website here.

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