A report in the Globe and Mail announces that the finalization of the Canada-EU trade deal has once again been stalled, with the earliest date for completion now set back to the summer:
Several politically sensitive issues have proved tricky, including the Canadian-content threshold for cars, reciprocal access for European cheese and Canadian beef, along with government purchasing and stronger patent protection for drugs in Canada.
Canadian and European negotiators are meeting this week in Brussels to try to narrow some of those differences.
