I WOULD NOT SAY WE ARE LOOKING TO DO THE SAME AS THE EU.

by the government rather than the industry.

Canadian government officials did not respond to a request for comment.

World Trade Organization rules allow for countries to take emergency safeguard action against imports if they cause serious injury, said John Weekes, Canada’s former WTO ambassador and chief negotiator on the original NAFTA agreement.

Applying import licensing to a range of products rather than waiting for trade statistics, would also be helpful in providing more information on the movement of goods into the country, he said.

“That would be a much surer method of determining what’s happening,” he said.

Meanwhile the Trump administration has ramped up pressure on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying Canada and Mexico’s exemptions from the steel and aluminum tariffs will expire May 1 if he’s not satisfied with the talks. Stock Exchange in mid-afternoon trading.

“It absolutely puts to rest the question of whether or not the somewhat intransigent behaviour by the city of Burnaby around issuing certificates was something the courts and the NEB would allow to continue,” Notley said.

Notley has aggressively pushed for the pipeline, which would allow oil companies in her province to diversify away from their main market in the United States — the biggest customer of Canadian crude.