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What will new Nafta talks mean for Canadian and US workers?
Canada's top Nafta negotiator Steve Verheul arrives for talks on the treaty on Friday

IN A trade merry-go-round, US and Canadian workers and unions are opposing their governments’ positions in US-Canada-Mexico talks on a “new Nafta.”

They are leery of Canada’s contrasting labour stands between the new Trans-Pacific Partnership pact — weak — and the new Nafta. There, Canada’s stand is, or has been, strong.

As a result, the AFL-CIO is monitoring the new Nafta talks, now occurring in Montreal, for Trump administration backsliding.

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