MUNICH—The federal Liberal government will “have the votes” to ensure North America’s new trade deal becomes the law of the land, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday before championing Canada’s fight against mounting protectionism and the erosion of rules-based global institutions.
Trudeau, in Germany for the Munich Security Conference, assured U.S. lawmakers that the House of Commons will vote on the newly negotiated U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, known as USMCA, “in the coming weeks.” Once approved, the signatories have three months to negotiate the regulations governing the deal before it goes into effect, likely this summer.
