Adds the letter: \u201cIt is especially inappropriate and insulting to our sovereignty to needlessly submit to social policies which the United States Congress has so far explicitly refused to accept.\u201d<\/p>\n
The letter argues that keeping the provision would not allow the administration to rescind Obama-era protections for LGBTQ workers that Republicans have been working diligently to trash.<\/p>\n
Trudeau told reporters that \u201che is not going to negotiate in public when asked how far he would go to keep the provision in the agreement\u201d according to the Toronto Star<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n He added: \u201cWe got to a good agreement that I think represents Canadian values, Canadian approach, but also values that are broadly shared amongst citizens of our three countries.\u00a0In any trade deal, there are going to be people who would like this or like that or not want this or not want that.\u201d<\/p>\n Politico reports<\/a>: \u2018The LGBT provisions were a Canadian priority \u2014 part of the so-called progressive trade agenda championed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and described as a \u201cbig win\u201d by his government. And the Trudeau government already is less than enthusiastic about entering the agreement while steel tariffs remain in place. Canada\u2019s ambassador to Washington joked in a recent interview with POLITICO that the country might sign the pact with a \u201cbag over its head.\u201d It\u2019s unclear whether the LGBT clauses even have real teeth. Both Canada and the U.S. agree it wouldn\u2019t require a new law. But it\u2019s unprecedented language in a U.S. trade agreement.\u2019<\/p>\n The post Justin Trudeau Grilled About Bigoted GOP Push to Remove LGBTQ Protections from North American Trade Deal<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad Gay News<\/a>.<\/p>\n