This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Conrad Black about the upcoming USMCA review.

This is the agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, dating to the first Trump

administration when Mr. Trump signed the document.

Now, everybody's for it.

It's a very good document.

Everybody benefits. There's $1.8 trillion of trade between these three countries. They're secure. They're safe. And everybody's happy, except I learned the Trump administration doesn't want to sign on to the review once changes.

Both parties in Canada, both parties in the United States, all the people who

dealt with the first document.

Mr. Trump himself signed the first document and here Conrad explains.

I think, I think, first of all, the federal conservative party in Canada is fundamentally in favor of renewing the USMCA,

and as far as I know, has no great grievances with it.

The main fears in Canada, regardless of party, are the statements

that your president and some people authorized to speak for him have made suggesting that

the Canadian auto industry is too protected and the United States doesn't need any automobiles or automobile

parts from Canada and reflections that the Canadian steel industry, which has an impressive

history, is surplus requirements of the economy of North America. So the largest concerns that you're expressed in this country are about ensuring that we

don't lose either the automobile or the steel industries, which are mainly in Ontario, and fairly

near Toronto.

And but in general, almost everybody in Canada wants the agreement for the near Toronto. And, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and we'll have to,

what they want, and whether they can be renewed.

Just later.