New NAFTA bill to be tabled soon, PM promises to keep pace with U.S. ratification

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is poised to table the legislation to implement the renegotiated NAFTA deal, within days and is set to push ahead on trying to pass the major trilateral trade deal in the dying days of this Parliament.

Trudeau has placed the bill, "An Act to implement the Agreement between Canada, the United States of America and the United Mexican States" on the House of Commons notice paper, meaning it could be tabled by the time U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visits Ottawa to discuss ratification on Thursday.

It remains to be seen how quickly the federal government will march on in moving the legislation through the various stages of debate and committee study, though with just three scheduled sitting weeks left in the House, time is limited unless the Liberals decide to extend the sitting...

This has been excerpted from the 28 May 2019 edition of CTV News.