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#4857488 at 2019-01-22 06:07:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6201: WH clean SIG, the legend of Kek The Bucket Edition
U.S. to formally seek extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou: Globe and Mail
(Reuters) - The United States will proceed with the formal extradition from Canada of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, Canada's ambassador to the United States told the Globe and Mail, in a move certain to ratchet up tensions with China. David MacNaughton, in an interview with the Canadian newspaper published on Monday, said the U.S. has told Canada it will request Meng's extradition, but he did not say when the request will be made. The deadline for filing is Jan. 30, or 60 days after Meng was arrested on Dec. 1 in Vancouver. Meng, the daughter of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested at the request of the United States over alleged violations of U.S. sanctions on Iran. She was released on bail last month and is due in court in Vancouver on Feb. 6.
Relations between China and Canada turned frosty after the arrest, with China detaining two Canadian citizens and sentencing to death a Canadian man previously found guilty of drug smuggling. The Chinese firm, the world's biggest maker of telecommunications equipment, said it had no comment on ongoing legal proceedings when contacted by Reuters on Tuesday. A U.S. Justice Department spokesman said, "We will comment through our filings." The Canadian Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular business hours.
Canada is one of over 100 countries with which the United States has extradition treaties. Once a formal request is received, a Canadian court must determine within 30 days if there is sufficient evidence to support extradition, and Canada's Minister of Justice must give a formal order. In an article published on Monday, a former Canadian spy chief said Canada should ban Huawei from supplying equipment for next-generation telecoms networks, while Canada's government is studying any security implications. Some of Canada's allies such as the United States and Australia have already imposed restrictions on using Huawei equipment, citing the risk of it being used for espionage.
Huawei has repeatedly said such concerns are unfounded, while China's ambassador to Canada last week said there would be repercussions if Ottawa blocked Huawei. In Monday's interview, MacNaughton said he had complained to the United States that Canada was suffering from Chinese revenge for an arrest made at the U.S.'s request. "We don't like that it is our citizens who are being punished," the Globe and Mail cited MacNaughton as saying. "(The Americans) are the ones seeking to have the full force of American law brought against (Ms. Meng) and yet we are the ones who are paying the price. Our citizens are." Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau previously said China was arbitrarily using the death penalty and called on world leaders to raise concerns about the detained Canadians.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-huawei-canada/u-s-to-formally-seek-extradition-of-huawei-executive-meng-wanzhou-globe-and-mail-idUSKCN1PG078?il=0
#3621970 at 2018-10-27 03:11:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4596: The Man With The Van Edition
Mexico, Canada play hardball on trade deal over steel tariffs
Juan Carlos Baker, Mexico's deputy commerce minister, said Friday that his government may not sign the final text of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade if the U.S. does not agree to provide exemptions to its tariffs on steel and aluminum. The Trump administration is balking at that demand, however, as its counter-proposal, a quota system, is getting the cold shoulder from both Mexico and Canada, which is also seeking an exemption from the tariffs. "We believe we need to solve that issue before the signing takes place," Baker told reporters in Ottawa. The signing has been tentatively set for the end of November.
It was the toughest threat yet from one of the negotiators over the deal that would replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. Mexico and Canada have lobbied the U.S. to lift exemptions to the tariffs, 25 percent for steel and 10 percent for aluminum, arguing that now that the talks for the USMCA deal are complete, there's no need to maintain those tariffs.
The U.S. however has resisted providing the exemptions, fearing that doing so would allow China, the main target of the tariffs, to harm the U.S. steel industry. "The president is reviewing the steel and aluminum tariffs," said Kelly Craft, U.S. ambassador to Canada, Friday at a forum hosted by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. "That is not something that is against Canada … It's just protecting North America from other countries that will be passing raw materials through, and also to protect our steel industry at home." The White House initially carved out exceptions for Canada and Mexico to its steel and aluminum tariffs , then revoked them in June as a way to pressure both countries during the talks to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The U.S. has proposed replacing the tariffs with a quota system, similar to what it did for South Korea regarding steel, when in August it allowed a quota of 70 percent of average steel exports to the United States in the years 2015 to 2017. Neither Canada nor Mexico are expressing interest on that, according to an administration official who requested anonymity to discuss ongoing talks. As a consequence, there isn't much talk going on between the countries to resolve the tariff issue, the official said. A Canadian government official, speaking anonymously, told the CBC earlier this week, that a quota proposal was a concession that Canada would make. Officials see no reason why they cannot return to status quo on metal imports from before the NAFTA talks. "There is no need for those tariffs to be in place," Canadian Ambassador David MacNaughton said Friday in Ottawa.
Backers of the administration's policies say a quota is still the best compromise for all sides. "From a U.S. industry perspective, tariffs are similarly effective to quotas if done right," said Michael Stumo, chief executive officer of the business-labor Coalition for a Prosperous America. "From Canada's perspective, they should want quotas rather than tariffs because with a quota, their industry gets the money, but with a tariff, the U.S. government gets the money." Critics charge that the systems lead to cronyism. "They empower foreign governments to pick winners and losers by deciding which steel or aluminum companies are allocated part of each country's quota to export to the United States," said Bryan Riley, trade policy analyst for the National Taxpayers Union. "That's one reason quotas may be harder to get rid of than tariffs - they can create a political constituency in foreign countries in support of the quotas."
Hugo Perezcano Diaz, deputy director of the international law research program at Canada's Centre for International Governance Innovation and a former NAFTA negotiator, speculates that the quota talk may be leading to an alternate solution, a closed three-country market. "Canada has already adopted a safeguard against imports of steel products from the rest of the world, including Mexico," he said. "If Mexico were to do something similar and the three countries close the North American market, the U.S. may feel sufficiently protected to eliminate the tariffs."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/mexico-canada-play-hardball-on-trade-deal-over-steel-tariffs
#2423086 at 2018-08-03 02:55:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3054 They Attempted Again on POTUS, USSS Acted Appropriately Edition
Nafta Snub Tests Trudeau's Armor Against Trump's Aggression
Canada frozen out of negotiations as U.S. focuses on Mexico
PM's support grew after president attacked him at G-7 summit
Justin Trudeau's popularity among voters faces a fresh test after the U.S. left his top diplomat out of recent Nafta talks with Mexico. While the Canadian prime minister does well in opinion polls when taking on President Donald Trump, he also knows he needs to dispel the perception he's more about flash than substance. Both factors will be in play as Canada responds to the Trump administration's new focus on talks with Mexico. Trudeau's team, led by Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, has been rebuffed in recent attempts to discuss changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to three people with knowledge of the negotiations.
The push with Mexico may simply reflect U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer's desire for a breakthrough on the crucial issue of rules for car production. The U.S. wants provisions that would blunt the advantage Mexico enjoys due to cheaper wages. But Trump has made clear his preference for one-on-one deals with countries, which he believes gives the U.S. a negotiating edge. And less than two months ago, the president unleashed a Twitter tirade against the Canadian prime minister, calling him "very dishonest and weak" after Trudeau said he would push back against U.S. steel tariffs at a Group of Seven summit in Quebec.
'Government Response'
Canada hasn't been excluded from the talks, according to a Canadian government official who asked to remain anonymous because the negotiations are private. The country encourages the U.S. and Mexico to talk to each other, and in order for the three countries to reach an agreement, the U.S. and Mexico largely have to sort out issues between them, autos being the primary one, the official said. Even though Nafta is trilateral, the negotiations themselves have largely been bilateral, the official said, adding Freeland and Lighthizer mutually agreed last week there was no reason for Canada to participate this week because the focus was on the U.S. and Mexico. David MacNaughton, Canada's ambassador to the U.S., said the Nafta talks are progressing well and the auto issue appears close to being resolved. Some of the remaining issues need to be addressed in bilateral talks, while others will require all three countries, he said. "I'm hoping we can get it done as quickly as possible, and we will be at the table working 24-7 if we have to to make it happen," MacNaughton said in an interview Wednesday. "It would be great to be get it done by the end of August."
https:// www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-08-01/nafta-snub-tests-trudeau-s-armor-against-trump-s-aggression
#307341 at 2018-02-08 19:09:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #376: YOU CAN SMELL (((THEIR))) FEAR
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AND TRUDEAU ARRIVED IN THE US TODAY TO MEET WITH THE SCUM OF THE EARTH.
HE IS AFRAID OF TRUMP
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"The Bezos meeting is just one aspect of Trudeau's trip south of the border.
Over the next four days, he will visit Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles to promote NAFTA and the importance of the Canada-U.S. trading relationship.
Former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson calls these types of missions essential to the Canada-U.S. relationship.
"I think the one thing Donald Trump has taught us is that you can't take the U.S. for granted," he told CBC News.
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U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Trudeau at the White House on Oct. 11, 2017. 'The one thing Donald Trump has taught us is that you can't take the U.S. for granted,' former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson said of the current U.S. president. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
"We do not make enough trips into the United States, given the relative weight of the United States and its importance on the Canadian economy."
The pitching begins in Chicago, where Trudeau will deliver a keynote speech today at the University of Chicago and participate in a discussion with David Axelrod, former U.S. president Barack Obama's chief election strategist.
Before the event, he will sit down with several political leaders, including Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who also served as Obama's first chief of staff.
Trudeau is expected to use the meetings to remind U.S. lawmakers of the importance of NAFTA at a critical point in the re-negotiation process.
Trudeau says Canada is ready if Trump nixes NAFTA
The sixth round of NAFTA talks ended in Montreal last month with all sides agreeing that progress has been slow.
Since then, new signs of hope have emerged that suggest a deal may be possible.
Canada's ambassador to the U.S., David MacNaughton, told an audience in Ottawa on Monday that he's pressuring negotiators to wrap up discussions in the next two months.
On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue told a U.S. House of Representatives committee that he believes a deal could be reached by December.
'Go north'
Trudeau will shift his focus to the tech sector on Thursday as he heads to San Francisco, where he will meet with Bezos. But he also will sit down with other influential business leaders, including the CEOs of online shopping giant eBay and pharmaceutical developer Amgen."
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#10671672 at 2020-09-16 20:07:26 (UTC+1)
Welcome To Q Research Canada Bread #7 - Brinks Bank and a Box of Doughnuts Edition
Ethics commissioner finds 9 senior officials - including Chrystia Freeland and Canada's chief of the defence staff - broke the Conflict of Interest Act by meeting with ex-ambassador to the US David MacNaughton, who is now head of a data analytics company.
https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/1306306026036170753