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RSS FeedsOttawa fires back at Doug Ford over USMCA grousing
(The Star Food)

 
 

15 october 2018 04:08:32

 
Ottawa fires back at Doug Ford over USMCA grousing
(The Star Food)
 


Put a sock in it, Doug.That’s the message from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to Doug Ford in the wake of the premier’s grousing about Ontario being hurt by the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade deal.The federal Liberals are striking back at Ford over his charge that Ottawa “left out” key sectors in the new USMCA.Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc has taken the unusual step of publicly reminding the premier of his position during the contentious trade talks.“Premier Ford fully supported Canada’s NAFTA negotiating position, both in public and in private,” LeBlanc told the Star on Friday.“Just days before the deal was concluded, the premier was briefed in detail in Washington, D.C., including about the modest changes to the supply management sector,” the minister said, referring to concessions that give U.S. dairy farmers access to about 3.6 per cent of the Canadian market.“The premier left that meeting and said publicly what he told us behind closed doors, that he stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with Canada’s negotiators. His … minister (Jim Wilson) even pleaded with us to get to a deal at any cost,” he said.Ottawa is blasting Ford — who, associates say, has future national political ambitions — after he escalated his rhetorical attacks on Trudeau this week.At a campaign rally Tuesday to mark his first 100 days in office, the premier lambasted the Prime Minister.“The new deal leaves too many Ontario families and businesses out in the cold. The Trudeau Liberals left out Ontario farmers, they left out Ontario’s steelworkers and aluminum workers,” Ford told about 600 supporters in Etobicoke.“They used Ontario jobs as a bargaining chip and Justin Trudeau is out there taking a victory lap without giving honest answers about … what he will do for the people he’s left behind,” he said.“My me ...


 
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