U.S. President Donald Trump is facing increasing resistance to his threats to rip up NAFTA and exclude Canada from the proposed trade deal struck with Mexico last week.
On Sunday, the U.S. labour movement – one of the trade pact’s longest-standing critics – insisted Canada must stay in the North American free-trade agreement. While labour figures have long argued that the pact moved manufacturing jobs to Mexico, industries from steel to autos rely heavily on supply chains that cross the border. “Our economies are integrated,” AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka told Fox News. “It’s hard to see how that would work without Canada on the deal.”
