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Guest column: Now's not the time to restart trade talks with U.S.

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McKenna: This is definitely not the time to be entering into renegotiation of the Canada-United States-Mexico- Agreement (CUSMA) McKenna : Both leaders of the federal Liberal Party and the Conservative Party are promising to do so once the April 28 election votes are tabulated.

McKenna : The current timing, political environment and circumstances all suggest pressing the pause button on Canada - U.S. trade relations.

The best thing that our next prime minister can do is to try, along with our Mexican friends, to postpone the future CUSMA review and any talk of fresh trade negotiations until after the November 2026 U.S. congressional midterm elections. Peter McKenna is professor of political science at the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown ..

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