Freeland: Trump administration is ‘explicitly protectionist’

Two days after the sixth round of NAFTA negotiations ended with harsh words from the United States – directed mostly at Canada – Ottawa’s foreign affairs minister, Chrystia Freeland, accused the Trump administration of seeking to diminish its trade relationship with Canada and the world. “The vision of this administration is different. This is an administration that is explicitly protectionist and in many areas the objective quite explicitly is to shrink the trading relationship,” Freeland told former Treasury Secretary Jack...