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RSS Feeds`We will look for win-win to our difficulties,´ says head of U.S. Mission in Ottawa
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

22 april 2017 13:47:31

 
`We will look for win-win to our difficulties,´ says head of U.S. Mission in Ottawa
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


With an increasingly strained U.S.-Canada relationship under U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, the head of the U.S. Mission in Ottawa says it is crucial to maintain the “people-to-people” contacts between the countries. “I personally believe it is completely vital for a bilateral relationship as broad, as deep, as vast and as important as ours is, to maintain people-to-people contacts. We are very closely linked. Our trade relationships are unparalleled,” said U.S. chargé d’affaires Elizabeth Aubin in Toronto on Friday.“It is very important to communicate and it is very important to have conversations in the areas where we agree and in the areas where we don’t agree. That is how we will understand each other and learn to find common grounds together. And we will look for a win-win to our difficulties.”The comments by Aubin, who assumed the job of chargé d’affaires following the departure of U.S. ambassador Bruce Heyman in January, came after Trump unleashed a tirade against the North American Free Trade Agreement and singled out Canada as a benefactor of the deal at Americans’ expense. A new ambassador has yet to be named.“We can’t let Canada, or anybody else, take advantage and do what they did to our workers, to our farmers,” said Trump on Thursday, following an earlier complaint this week about how Canada’s trade practices were threatening the livelihoods of Wisconsin farmers.In an exclusive interview with the Star, Aubin tried to downplay Trump’s comments, saying the two countries have had conversations about trades since the 1960s and more than 95 per cent of the bilateral trade relationship is “extremely smooth.”“We only talk about the little things that pop up where we do not have an agreement. So I think the more we talk to each other and interact with each other, the better our relationship will be ov ...


 
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