My favourite parts of the article are  below

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tories-nafta-deadline-ministers-1.4659663

"the main rift at this stage pits the U.S. against Mexico. It centres on the Trump administration's attempt to create rules that encourage auto production in the higher-wage northern countries.

A good meeting

With Canada's hot-button issues with the U.S. not quite on the front burner this past week, Canada's lead minister attended fewer and shorter meetings at the negotiating site.

Canadian officials walked out of the U.S. trade representative's office Friday smiling and hailing a productive encounter, before they left for the airport and headed home."

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from the past..

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/08/09/mexican-auto-jobs-quadrupled-as-canada-s-industry-shrank-report_a_23072409/

"Canada's auto industry has been losing jobs for years — principally to Mexico.

Over the past decade, the number of auto jobs in Mexico has quadrupled, while Canada has shed 26 per cent of its auto-related positions, the report stated.

The U.S. experienced a similar 28-per-cent decline in auto employment."