No timeline to resume formal trade talks with U.S., chief negotiator says
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Open this photo in gallery:Janice Charette, Canada's chief trade negotiator with the United States, speaks at the Toronto Global Forum conference on Thursday. Sammy Kogan/The Globe and MailCanada’s chief trade negotiator with the United States said she’s still communicating with her U. S. counterparts but there’s no timeline for returning to formal trade talks. Janice Charette pointed to a call that Prime Minister Mark Carney had with U. S. President Donald Trump this week, and said that Canada-U. S. trade minister Dominic LeBlanc “has regular and frequent conversations with some of his counterparts in the United States.”“We’re having conversations to see whether or not we can come back to the table for a set of detailed negotiations. We don’t know exactly when that’s going to happen,” Ms. Charette said at the Toronto Global Forum conference on Thursday. “We’re trying to stabilize the relationship because we are not in a position where it is stable right now. It’s certainly not predictable,” she said. Ms. Charette had been in intense negotiations with the Trump administration over the summer in a bid to reach a deal that would have lowered U. S.
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