New York — US President Donald Trump slammed what he termed "decades of abuse" by Canada with a new threat to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), after talks with the US’s northern neighbour stalled on Friday — hours before a deadline. "There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new Nafta deal. If we don’t make a fair deal for the US after decades of abuse, Canada will be out," Trump said on Twitter on Saturday. "Congress should not interfere w/these negotiations or I will simply terminate Nafta entirely & we will be far better off." The president’s tweet was sent shortly after he left the White House in a motorcade bound for his golf course in Virginia. Trump’s move on Friday to notify Congress that he planned to sign a deal with Mexico in 90 days and would include Canada "if it is willing" appeared to avoided what many in the US business community and Congress had seen as a worst-case scenario. But Saturday’s tweets opened the door again to that o...
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