Freeland leaves D.C. with no tariff deal, despite early optimism from U.S.

Last Updated Wednesday, May 15, 2019 5:35PM EDTForeign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland came and went from Washington on Wednesday, shifting diplomatic gears and jetting to Havana on a day that saw early hope that the end of the Canada-U.S. tariff dispute was close fizzle in a puff of figurative smoke.

"And we made the case, as we have been doing for some time, that the best outcome for both Canadians and Americans would be to lift those tariffs and to have free trade between our two countries," Freeland said. "One meeting closer to achieving a great outcome," Freeland said. And then: "OK, I think we need to leave for Cuba soon."

Morneau said he brings up the tariffs with Mnuchin every time they talk, including in a telephone call last week and face-to-face meetings last month in Washington at World Bank and G20 finance ministers' meetings. Mnuchin acknowledged to the senators what business leaders in all three countries, as well as U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the political divide, have been saying: that the tariffs must be lifted for the newly negotiated North American free trade deal to be ratified by legislators.

She, Trudeau and others in the Canadian government have derided the tariffs as absurd, illegal and insulting.

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As expected... sadly.

cafreeland is the worst possible negotiator imaginable. What a failure she's been on this file.

She is useless.

What a surprise. Team Trudeau fails again.

Shocker

ErinOTooleMP Who is surprised....

Send Harper down to talk to trump, he would have the tariffs gone by lunch.

China dumping steel. They were warned a year before tariffs. But hey! Gender issues.

Way to go freeland!!!!! Keep up the good work

Canada is becoming the america’s used handkerchief because of fucking Trudeau’s incompetence.

Another useless wasted trip. Liberals must get out of governing. They haven’t a clue.

'Wasn't he supposed to be the 'big deal maker''

Freeland just can’t get it done. The Liberals are out of their League.

She is a fool.

Pretty much a total failure just like NAFTA negotiations then...this Liberal Government is a dumpster fire that won’t stop...

U.S negotiators thoroughly dislike Frump Freeland and recognize her lack of qualifications and clearly know that PM Justaboy Trudumb is mocked worldwide

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