Canada’s minister responsible for trade negotiations with the United States says discussions about tariff removal are not advancing quickly enough, casting doubt on the possibility of a deal being announced during this week’s G7 summit.
Trade talks with the United States are “frequent and constructive” but not enough progress has been made since U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canada earlier this year, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said in a June 15 interview on Global News’ “The West Block.”
“I’m hopeful we’ll get there, but it’s not fast enough,” said LeBlanc, who is one of the several key ministers engaged in negotiations with the Trump administration. “Our hope was that we would have made more progress before the president arrived in Alberta for the G7. We haven’t yet hit that sweet spot.”…