Insights and Stories on Trudeau

Trudeau optimistic about making progress to end China canola ban

Mar. 22, 2019 at 6:47 pm CDT

Ottawa/Chicago | Reuters — Canada is optimistic it can make progress this year in talks to persuade China to allow imports of Canadian canola seed to resume, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday, even as tensions between Ottawa and Beijing reach new highs. Trudeau spoke hours after an industry […]

Rural development strategy sought in federal shuffle

Jan. 17, 2019 at 3:43 am CST

By GFM Staff

Canada/U.S. border signage in downtown Detroit.

U.S., Canada, Mexico sign trade deal after last-minute brinkmanship

Nov. 30, 2018 at 9:20 am CST

By Roberta Rampton

Canada to work with China on trade deal despite USMCA clause, Trudeau says

Nov. 15, 2018 at 3:01 pm CST

By Fathin Ungku

Sober start as recreational marijuana becomes legal in Canada

Oct. 18, 2018 at 5:31 am CDT

By Julie Gordon Nichola Saminather

Dairy farmers unhappy after meeting Trudeau on USMCA

Oct. 4, 2018 at 4:16 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian dairy farmers met Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday to discuss his politically-risky move to open up the protected domestic market to U.S. industry but complained he had not given them details about compensation. As part of the talks to complete the new United States-Mexico-Canada […]

By David Ljunggren

Trudeau takes Quebec dairy gamble to preserve big trade deal

Oct. 2, 2018 at 5:16 pm CDT

Ottawa/Montreal | Reuters — With his political future at stake, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will mount a charm offensive to placate dairy farmers who say he sold them out in order to win approval of a continental trade deal. Compounding Trudeau’s challenges in the influential province of Quebec, where […]

By Allison Lampert David Ljunggren

Canada, U.S. deal saves NAFTA as trilateral pact

Oct. 1, 2018 at 2:05 am CDT

Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — The U.S. and Canada forged a last-gasp deal on Sunday to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a three-country, US$1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century. In a big victory for his agenda to shake […]

By David Ljunggren Roberta Rampton

Canada, U.S. reach deal to update NAFTA, sources say

Sep. 30, 2018 at 9:49 pm CDT

Ottawa/Washington | Reuters — The U.S. and Canada reached a deal to update NAFTA and keep it a trilateral pact with Mexico, beating a midnight deadline with agreements to boost U.S. access to Canada’s dairy market and protect Canada from possible U.S. autos tariffs, two Canadian sources with direct knowledge […]