Trade discussions between Canada and the United States were moving in a positive direction in the weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled talks, according to Canada’s ambassador in Washington.
“I don’t want to suggest that we were on the verge of an arrangement, but we had made more progress—in my opinion, in those weeks—than we had in a very long time,” Canadian Ambassador to the United States Kirsten Hillman told the Senate foreign affairs committee on Oct. 29.
