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The Trump administration is demanding what amounts to an "entry fee" from Canada to engage in trade talks toward a revised Canada-United States-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (CUSMA), four sources told Radio-Canada….
The U.S. demand was also confirmed by former Quebec premier Jean Charest, who was appointed Tuesday to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations.
"[U.S. President Donald] Trump wants us to make a lot of concessions before we sit down at the table," Charest told Radio-Canada. "Meanwhile, he wouldn’t make any."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/washington-demanding-entry-fee-from-ottawa-before-trade-talks-sources-9.7172340