Doug Ford, the outspoken premier of Ontario who infuriated Donald Trump with anti-tariff adverts last year, urged the US president to “get a deal” done with Canada as he struck a diplomatic tone on a visit to Washington.
Canada has struggled to launch formal talks with the US as Washington works on negotiating changes to its 2020 US-Mexico-Canada Agreement trade deal with Ottawa and Mexico City, which is supposed to be completed by July 1, although few expect that deadline to be met.
“I think we just need to hammer out a deal as quickly as we possibly can,” Ford told the FT on a trip to Washington this week to lobby US businesses and lawmakers on a potential agreement.