The former finance minister’s managing of bilateral relations at one of their most difficult points is the centrepiece of her record
The Trump administration was just a few weeks old and already Canadian jobs were under threat. It was early 2017, and Donald Trump had decreed that U.S. oil and gas pipelines would be banned from being made with foreign metal – a potentially devastating blow to an Evraz steel factory in Regina.
Several people who spoke to The Globe and Mail about her for this story did so on condition that they not be named in order to share sensitive details of closed-door, behind-the-scenes manoeuvring. To some who worked with her on the file, Ms. Freeland was deft and effective, standing up for Canadian interests in the face of a protectionist onslaught. To others, she was needlessly obstructionist and provocative, irritating the Trump administration for little reason.Kenneth Smith Ramos, Mexico’s chief USMCA negotiator, said Ms.
The Canadian strategy, which entailed refusing to make concessions until the very end of negotiations, caused Mr. Trump’s irritation with Ms. Freeland to boil over in public. “We’re very unhappy with the negotiations and the negotiating style of Canada. We don’t like their representative very much,” he said at one news conference late during the talks.
Others offered a more nuanced view, including another Canadian official who said Ms. Freeland displayed intelligence, a strong grasp of technical details and was good at crafting strategy. But her style, this person said, rubbed some of her U.S. counterparts the wrong way. Flavio Volpe, the head of Canada’s auto parts industry group, who advised the Trudeau government during trade talks, said Ms. Freeland was “the quarterback” of the Canadian team. He characterized American irritation with her as sour grapes.
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