{"id":3891,"date":"2018-04-05T11:07:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=463abc59aa64700bc5d5553fe79fe7c3"},"modified":"2018-04-05T11:07:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:07:25","slug":"trudeau-expresses-optimism-about-nafta-as-freeland-heads-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/05\/trudeau-expresses-optimism-about-nafta-as-freeland-heads-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau expresses optimism about NAFTA as Freeland heads to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUEBEC &#8212; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expressing optimism that the NAFTA discussions with Mexico and the United States are moving forward in a significant way.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Quebec City today, Trudeau said he is hoping there will be good news to report because of what he called a current productive spell between Canada and the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau says he is happy with the work being done by Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland.<\/p>\n<p>Freeland will be in Washington today to meet U.S. trade czar Robert Lighthizer as part of the ongoing efforts to complete the NAFTA renegotiation.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico&#8217;s chief negotiator, Kenneth Smith Ramos, wrote on Twitter this week the NAFTA talks were entering a phase of &#8220;intensive&#8221; ministerial engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Lighthizer also said last week he was optimistic with regard to the talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUEBEC &mdash; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expressing optimism that the NAFTA discussions with Mexico and the United States are moving forward in a significant way. Speaking in Quebec City today, Trudeau said he is hoping there will be good news to report because of what he called a current productive spell between Canada and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3893,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions\/3893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}