{"id":8941,"date":"2018-05-10T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=127efa647adf4c9ee2a11329354e50ec"},"modified":"2018-05-10T15:32:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:32:26","slug":"freeland-gets-briefing-from-u-s-lawmakers-on-tight-window-for-passing-nafta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/10\/freeland-gets-briefing-from-u-s-lawmakers-on-tight-window-for-passing-nafta\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeland gets briefing from U.S. lawmakers on tight window for passing NAFTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Canada&#8217;s foreign minister found out today why there might only be a few days left to get a NAFTA agreement in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Chrystia Freeland attended a discussion with top U.S. lawmakers on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>They included the speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, and Kevin Brady, the chair of the House committee that oversees trade legislation.<\/p>\n<p>They shared their view of the so-called fast-track law, which sets the rules for votes on trade deals.<\/p>\n<p>The prevailing view in Washington is that it would likely be impossible to get a vote this year on any agreement reached after around May 18, and if it doesn&#8217;t happen this year a new Congress will consider the issue after the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Freeland says it was helpful to hear from lawmakers who actually wrote and are responsible for implementing the U.S. rules.<\/p>\n<p>She says lots of progress has been made this week, and negotiators are closer to success &#8212; although the talks have been mostly seized with the issue of autos, giving little space to hard negotiations on other top files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &mdash; Canada&rsquo;s foreign minister found out today why there might only be a few days left to get a NAFTA agreement in 2018. Chrystia Freeland attended a discussion with top U.S. lawmakers on Capitol Hill. They included the speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, and Kevin Brady, the chair of the House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/8941"}],"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=8941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8942,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions\/8942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}