That seems to conflict with what officials on the record and off the record are saying.
Premier Susan Holt of New Brunswick said that the free trade talks of the United States are “not at a place that I could write home about with a lot of optimism”. That's what she said after a meeting with Minister LeBlanc. Then we have Louise Blais, the former Canadian diplomat, saying that officials in Washington are telling her that the Canadian government is going slow in its approach deliberately on this.
Then there was an official, a Quebec source reported in CBC/Radio-Canada, who said that when the Prime Minister talked to the Quebec premier, “Carney told him explicitly that this slow approach was part of Ottawa's strategy”.
What is the strategy? Is it to go slow, or is it to do what the Mexicans are doing and expeditiously deal with this?