Freeland has sent a letter to the leaders of the Conservatives, NDP, Bloc Quebecois and Greens on the eve of the return of the House of Commons asking for their support.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer have released a joint statement confirming that a new trade deal has been reached to replace NAFTA.

With little time left ahead of a deadline to agree to a renewed NAFTA, Canadian and U.S. trade officials on Sunday tried to settle differences on tough issues such as protection against American tariffs.

In an interview with The West Block's Mercedes Stephenson, Minister of Transport Marc Garneau explains why the Canadian government isn't eager to set a NAFTA deadline.

The U.S.-Mexico pact has prompted many of Canada’s business and political leaders to ramp up pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to cut his own deal with the United States.

With time running out ahead of a U.S.-imposed deadline of the end of September, negotiators are making slow progress on updating NAFTA.

Canada would already have a new NAFTA deal if the Conservatives were in power, party leader Andrew Scheer says, but he made no mention of how he would approach some of the negotiations' key sticking points.

Sources say Thursday's talks between Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and U.S. trade ambassador Robert Lighthizer were dominated by efforts to secure a commitment from the Americans that a new NAFTA deal would mitigate the risk of such tariffs.

The economic outlook from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development placed much of the blame on trade fears.

In a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Donald Trump told reporters that Canada cannot keep charging the United States a 300 per cent tariff on dairy products.