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Life after NAFTA: Canadian businesses start to plan for bleak new trade reality

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Life after NAFTA: Canadian businesses start to plan for bleak new trade reality

Companies starting to project more trade headaches into planning and assumptions

By Peter Armstrong, CBC News Posted: Nov 11, 2017 5:00 AM ET, Last Updated: Nov 11, 2017 5:00 AM ET, http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines...-armstrong-1.4393021

When Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was campaigning for the U.S. presidency, he was clear he would tear up NAFTA if he couldn't get a 'better' deal.When Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was campaigning for the U.S. presidency, he was clear he would tear up NAFTA if he couldn't get a 'better' deal. (Dominick Reuter/Reuters)

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What a year. It was this week last year that Donald Trump's insurgent campaign won the U.S. presidency. Back then, officials and businesses seemed to shrug off Trump's very clear promise to tear up NAFTA.

Now, major Canadian manufacturers are running the numbers, trying to figure out what life would be like if Trump makes good on his threat and scraps the deal altogether.

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