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Prime Minister Mark Carney says intense negotiations continue at the highest levels of the Trump administration for tariff relief on key Canadian sectors, adding that those talks include reviving the Keystone XL pipeline.

Robert Fife reports that at a news conference in Ottawa today, Carney acknowledged that the talks with the U.S. are at a critical stage.

“Intensive negotiations are in train right now for the sectors of steel and aluminum and in parallel conversations on forest products and automobiles,” Carney told reporters.

The goal of the talks is to reach an agreement so those industries are not punished again when the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement comes up for renewal next year.

That deal allows

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