International Trade Minister Mary Ng watches footage from an earlier videoconference that she participated in with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and U.K. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, during a news conference on the Canada-United Kingdom Trade Continuity Agreement in Ottawa on Nov. 21, 2020. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang
The United Kingdom and Canada are blaming each other for failing to formally ratify an interim trade deal to bridge the gap between expiration of the Canada-EU agreement on Dec. 31 and eventual achievement of a permanent Canada-U.K. deal.
Canada’s opposition parties, meanwhile, are blaming the governing Liberals.
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Lee Harding is a journalist and think tank researcher based in Saskatchewan, and a contributor to The Epoch Times.
