U.S. ambassador warns against cutting Mexico out of trade deal [Video]

Cutting Mexico out of the current North American free trade deal “may not be the best path to take,” says U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Cohen.

“I come from a school of ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it,’ when we have this really incredible, incredible agreement in CUSMA, by the way, an agreement that was negotiated by Donald Trump,” Cohen said, in an interview on CTV’s Question Period airing on Sunday.

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Cohen’s comments come after a few Canadian premiers voiced support for the idea of cutting Mexico out of the trilateral free trade agreement, or Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement, in favour of bilateral pacts between just Canada and the U.S., and Canada and Mexico.

“We’ve got to put Canada first,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smithsaid in an interview on a previous episode of …