OTTAWA — With the clock ticking to an Aug. 1 deadline to strike a new Canada-U.S. trade and security deal, four U.S. senators met with Prime Minister Mark Carney in search of common ground on some of the thorniest cross-border trade irritants: lumber, digital services taxes and metals tariffs.
“We are bridge builders, not people who throw wrenches,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) told reporters Monday following a 45-minute meeting on Parliament Hill.
Top of mind for the visiting Americans was the successful renegotiation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that President Donald Trump once called the “largest, most significant, modern, and balanced trade agreement in history.”
Wyden said the delegation agreed the three countries should “reinvigorate” USMCA when it comes due for review.
