The U.S. administration was hoping to work out a “bigger deal” with Canada than the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says, adding that this is currently unlikely to happen.
Hoekstra made the comments while speaking about the state of Canada-U.S. relations at a Sept. 16 event in Ottawa hosted by the Canadian International Council. He said the White House was looking for a deal that would span various sectors.
“Americans were hopeful that we could negotiate a bigger deal,” Hoekstra said, as first reported by The Globe and Mail. “I mean, there is so much that we do together, where our economies are integrated, they graft off of each other and those types of things.”…