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Quebec’s NAFTA Negotiator: Playoffs Haven’t Started Yet

Raymond Bachand visited Houston to talk about Quebec-Texas trade and the North American Free Trade Agreement

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Quebec’s chief NAFTA negotiator, former Canadian finance minister Raymond Bachand, is not concerned that Canada will be shut out of a new NAFTA deal.

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The future of the North American Free Trade Agreement continues to be up in the air as the United States, Mexico and Canada are renegotiating NAFTA.

Or are they?

Canada has been on the sidelines as the U.S. and Mexico have worked toward an agreement.

This week, the chief NAFTA negotiator for Canada's Quebec province, Raymond Bachand, was in Houston to talk about trade between Canada and the U.S., including Quebec and Texas.

We caught up with him at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

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