Opinion: Amid NAFTA uncertainty, Canada has allies in New England

U.S. President Donald Trump has promised Americans a renegotiated, more advantageous NAFTA, but beneath his commercial sabre-rattling lies a more promising and perhaps more interesting story. Across New England, state leaders are approaching trade with Canada from the perspective of mutual benefits.
NAFTA talks and the perpetually thorny issue of softwood lumber have concealed much of the economic relationship between Canada and the United States. In New England, that relationship is perhaps bes