Analysts: Canada getting 'tough' by linking defense procurement to Bombardier AD, CVD case

With NAFTA talks around the corner, Ottawa appears keen on signaling strength in the trade realm, analysts say -- citing an implicit threat to cancel a planned government purchase of Boeing fighter jets in response to an antidumping and countervailing duty case the U.S. aerospace company brought against Canada's Bombardier. Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, in response to the Commerce Department's initiation of the AD and CVD investigations , last week said Boeing's allegations were illegitimate, adding that duties would...