US-Canada NAFTA talks hit roadblocks as they go down to the wire

Canada and the United States faced roadblocks as they went down to the wire Friday in talks to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement, and one may have come from dealmaker-in-chief Donald Trump.

With the US deadline to get an agreement by Friday, there were reports the sides were struggling to find compromise on the NAFTA mechanism for resolving trade disputes and on Canada's managed dairy market.

And then came reports from the Toronto Star that Trump boasted in an interview that he was playing hardball with Canada in the negotiations, saying, "I can kill these people."
Freeland had been resolutely upbeat all week saying the sides were making progress, but on Friday morning she stressed that "We're looking for a good deal, not just any deal." "We always stand up for national interest," she said, adding. "We will only agree to a deal that's a good deal for Canada. We're not there yet."