Tuesday, August 28, 2018

NAFTA Countdown: Hopefully Your Summer Vacations (and Back to School Shopping) Are Done - Weaker C$ Just in Time for School After Long Weekend

Interesting Strategy and Tactics to Sign up the Two Biggest Economies of the Agreement, Then Leave Canada With Take It Or Leave It"...in Four Days

After five weeks of waiting it out on the sidelines among the uninvited, surprise surprise, the USA and Mexico have a deal.  How does Canada now fit into this with its gender based trade agenda - we will find out Friday.  The Liberals' stall strategy (as it pertains to everything the Liberals touch) is up and we will have an answer on whether we are locked into a bad deal, or part of no deal.   Anyway, a weaker C$ in time for back to school.

On Bloomberg Daybreak Americas this morning, David Westin (and I'm sure other US journalists and media) laughing at us, "...Imagine that conversation wth Mr. [not Prime Minister] Trudeau, the good news is we want to negotiate with you, the bad news is you have four days..."

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