Canada and NAFTA

The World

Canada and the US are re-starting trade talks a day after the US and Mexico announced the outline of a new deal to replace NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. Host Marco Werman speaks with Gordon Ritchie, who was one of the chief negotiators for Canada in the original Canada-US free trade agreement in the 1980s. 

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