At Governors Meeting, Trudeau Pushes to Preserve NAFTA

Governing: Calling for a "thinner border for trade, not a thicker one," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday told United States governors that he would oppose any Trump administration efforts to reform the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in a way that would inhibit trade between member countries.

"More trade barriers, more local-content provisions, more preferential access for homegrown buyers and government procurement, for example, does not help working families over the long-term or even the middle-term," Trudeau said at the National Governors Association's annual summer meeting in Providence, R.I. "Such policies kill growth."

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