Canada stands with Mexico

THE FOREIGN ministers of Mexico and Canada have presented a unified front ahead of potential trade talks with US President Donald Trump’s administration, stressing that the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) has benefited all three.

Mexico’s Luis Videgaray and Canada’s Chrystia Freeland said Nafta should be renegotiated with all three countries at the table.

“We very much recognise that Nafta is a three-country agreement,” said Freeland at a panel discussion with Videgaray in Toronto. “We value our relationship with Mexico.”

Their talks come after Trump said trade with Canada only needed a “tweak” as opposed to a more thorough re-set with Mexico.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto cancelled a January meeting with Trump after the US president tweeted that Nieto should not come unless Mexico was prepared to pay for a border wall to stop undocumented immigration.