The United States, Mexico and Canada finalized a new trade agreement Sunday to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, or Nafta. The new deal, called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, staves off a trade war, reassuring some Canadian readers who said they were pleased with it.

But many Canadians took to our comment section to tell us that, more than anything, they are angry over how the deal was achieved. They called the Trump administration’s negotiating tactics “bullying” techniques and “name-calling” rather than diplomacy.



A selection of comments from Canadian readers is below. They have been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

‘No one would call it a reasonable negotiation’

If you hold a gun to the head of your much smaller and weaker neighbor to force him to give you a few more apples off his tree, and he complies, I guess you could call that “success.”

But no one would call it a reasonable negotiation between friendly neighbors. Let’s be very clear about that.

— Nick Wright, Halifax, Nova Scotia