Bloomberg: Nafta Crunch Caps a Pretty Dreadful Week for Justin Trudeau
This has not been a good week for Justin Trudeau.
It began with a surprise U.S.-Mexico trade pact that excluded Canada from a Nafta rewrite, sending the prime minister’s negotiating team scrambling to strike a deal ahead of the Trump administration’s deadline. Then a key pipeline he spent billions to nationalize got sideswiped by a court decision, and the most important ally in his climate change plan abandoned him. And now the White House has informed Congress of its intent to sign an new agreement with or without the northern nation.
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WNU Editor: The media and the polls that they commission say that Prime Minister Trudeau is still comfortably in the lean in public opinion polls, and that he will coast to another election win next year. The problem is that in the past few months his allies are being easily defeated in elections, and that in strongholds like Quebec (where I live), his support has evaporated, especially among French Canadians. Bottom line .... he is in trouble.
