(The Center Square) – Canada will keep looking for trade partners outside the United States despite Democrats winning both chambers of Congress in this week's midterm election, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said.
“That’s not going to change the work that we have to do in the next two weeks,” LeBlanc told reporters on Wednesday.
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