Canada Optimistic US Will Rejoin TPP Post-Trump, Former NAFTA Negotiator Says
Canada is playing the long game on trade with the U.S., as it hopes to activate a Trans-Pacific Partnership with all signatories except the one in Washington, then get South Korea and Indonesia, and finally the U.S., post-Trump administration, to…
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join, a former Canadian diplomat and original NAFTA negotiator said Nov. 7. “Initially, I thought not, but of late, I’m thinking, yes, and starting to hear from the Koreans and Indonesians that they’d be [the twelfth and thirteenth members], and then there would be a docking provision for the United States with a change in administration,” said Colin Robertson, now the vice president for the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, during a panel discussion at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Earlier in the discussion, Robertson said Canada won’t walk away from the NAFTA negotiating table, but might have to wait until the next election for the U.S. to drop its “insularity” with regard to trade. “We have no choice but to play the long game,” he said.