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Amy Hamm: Carney, release the deal

The prime minister has been too stingy with details about the breakdown in trade talks

Release the deal, Prime Minister Carney. Canadians deserve to know the precise details that led to a full on, unprecedented trade war with President Donald Trump’s America in the last week.

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While Canada’s abrupt departure from trade talks very well may have been inevitable and defensible, Carney affronts all of us with his failure to demonstrate — beyond a shadow of doubt — that this was the case.

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A Department of Finance news release from Aug. 25 states that: “Canada has negotiated intensively and in good faith with the United States… In recent days, however, the U.S. proposed new terms that were not in Canada’s best interest, basically, asking too much of Canada, and offering too little in return. Canada therefore suspended negotiations rather than accepting a bad deal that would undermine Canadian workers, businesses, strategic sectors, and our national interest. Canada did not choose this trade conflict, but we need to respond to provide a level playing field to our businesses.”

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