Enhanced labour mobility is high on the list of goals for the Canadian government as it gears up for next month's start of negotiations on a renewed North American Free Trade Agreement.

Liberal-Tory common front on NAFTA negotiations frayed by Khadr quarrel.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's willing to fill opposition parties in on Canada's strategy as it heads into trilateral negotiations next month with the U.S. and Mexico on a new NAFTA.

The Trudeau government is extending public consultations to find out what Canadians want to see in a new North American Free Trade Agreement.

A bid by senators to amend the Trudeau government's budget escalated on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 into a test of wills over which parliamentary chamber has the right to decide budgetary matters.

The Senate voted on Tuesday, June 20, 2017, to delete a so-called escalator tax on booze from the federal government's budget.

Trudeau kicked senators out of the Liberal caucus and, once in power, created an arms-length body to recommend non-partisan individuals for appointment to the upper house.

Justin Trudeau reminded senators on Friday, June 16, 2017, that they're unelected and have no business rewriting a federal budget passed by the elected House of Commons.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau issued a veiled warning on Thurs. June 15, 2017, that the Trudeau government won't accept Senate changes to his budget bill.

The NDP will use an opposition day Tuesday to move push for a multi−party committee to give its approval to anyone nominated by the government to be an officer of Parliament.