The Globe and Mail in its Tuesday edition describes how down-to-the wire last week's trade negotiations with the Trump administration were. A four-bylined item led by Adrian Morrow says that less than 90 minutes before the midnight deadline, the call came from the Prime Minister: Canada was done negotiating. In numerous places, the proposed text of the deal that U.S. negotiators presented Canada with was different than what had been agreed to last Tuesday. For instance, the two sides had broadly agreed that Canada would have "most favoured nation" clauses in the deal that would ensure that if the U.S. gave more tariff relief to another country, Ottawa would get the same. But Washington took that language out of its proposed final deal. American negotiators also increasingly hardened their demands that the U.S. be able to dictate Canadian trade policy, such as obliging Ottawa to make the same levies on key products from third countries as Washington did. Other last-minute U.S. demands that tanked the deal: excluding trucks from auto tariff relief and ending Canadian rules that make U.S. streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime provide Canadian content, including content in French, for users in Canada.
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