In a May 2019 interview, Harris said she would have also opposed the original NAFTA agreement, which Biden voted for as a senator in 1993.
“I would not have voted for NAFTA, and because I believe that we can do a better job to protect American workers,” Harris told CNN. “I also believe that we need to do a better job in terms of thinking about… issues like the climate crisis and what we need to do to build [them] into these trade agreements.”
Harris has not said if she would reopen USMCA as president, but has been known to shift and soften her positions.
“The Harris-Walz campaign is still vague on trade policy details, but I doubt it will be different from Biden’s in relation to the green economy, energy policy and more,” University of Ottawa political scientist Srdjan Vucetic told CTVNews.ca.
Having graduated from high school in Montreal, Harris has direct ties to Canada. So does her running mate for vice president, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, whose state shares an 885-km border with Ontario and Manitoba. Canada is also Minnesota’s largest customer, buying approximately US$7.0-billion in goods in 2023.
In a 2020 Canada Day message, Walz said Minnesota’s relationship with its northern neighbour encompasses everything from trade to tourism.
“It is true that Canada and Minnesota share a border, and are therefore inherently bonded, but our friendship extends much deeper than that,” Walz said in a video posted online by the Consulate General of Canada in Minneapolis. “Our relationship extends from private sector investments by Canadian companies that employ thousands of Minnesotans, to Minnesota-based companies that have invested across Canada.”
Who’s better for Canada?
“Between Walz and Harris’s background in Canada, these are two people that will have a good understanding of the relationship between the two countries,” Western University U.S. politics specialist Matthew Lebo told The Canadian Press.
Former U.S. ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman says a Harris and Walz win would also be a victory for Canada.
“You’ve got the best team for U.S.-Canada relations, in the Harris-Walz team, and maybe the best team that has existed, maybe, since Obama-Biden, where I worked as the U.S. ambassador,” Hyman recently told CTV News. “This is clearly significantly better than the Trump team.”
Vucetic, a professor in the University of Ottawa’s graduate school of public and international affairs, says that while Canada can expect protectionist agendas from both the Republican and Democratic nominees, a Harris presidency would ultimately be better for Canada.
“Today, Democrats make promises to protect jobs and wages on a daily basis, and Kamala Harris cannot be an exception,” Vucetic said. “Whoever gets to sit at the Resolute Desk in 2025 will seek to reinvigorate U.S. manufacturing and cement Buy American practices, and the challenge for Canadian policymakers will be to seek and secure various exceptions and exemptions for Canada.”
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