‘Not clear it’s a better deal’ for Canadians: Falk on new USMCA
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After months of often rancorous negotiations, the United States, Canada and Mexico have agreed in principle on a new trade pact between the three nations.
The new deal, which will be called the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) was reached amid 11th-hour negotiations Sunday night, ahead of the Oct. 1 deadline set by the Americans to slide the bill through Congress and have it signed prior to the arrival of Mexico’s new president on Dec. 1.
Battlefords-Lloydminster MP Rosemarie Falk, in a written statement to battlefordNOW, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau volunteered to renegotiate NAFTA and promised a better deal for Canadians. While she said he delivered on achieving a new deal “it is not clear that it is a better deal.”
“The number of concessions made in key areas including the dairy and automotive sector is alarming,” she said in the statement. “What’s worse is that Canada got nothing in return for these concessions – tariffs remain on steel, aluminum and softwood lumber, buy American provisions were not repealed and prescription drugs will cost more.”
