Freeland praises CETA’s labor, environmental provisions as model for NAFTA

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Tuesday extolled the labor and environmental provisions in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Canada signed with the European Union as a model for all other trade agreements -- including a modernized North American Free Trade Agreement -- to follow. “We take particular pride in [CETA’s] chapters on labor and the environment. Mexico as it happens is currently working with Europe on its own trade agreement,” Freeland told reporters during a May 23 conference...