OTTAWA — While Canada remains optimistic that progress is being made in trade talks with the United States, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic Leblanc warned Thursday that Canadians shouldn’t expect trade terms between the two neighbours to revert back to the patterns of recent decades.

“I do believe this is resolvable,” LeBlanc told the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, responding to a question from Nova Scotia’s John McNair. “(But) the relationship with the United States has fundamentally changed and it will not magically go back to what it may have been a year ago or 25 years ago.”

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LeBlanc, the Carney government’s point person on trade with the U.S. and Mexico, also said that Canada and the U.S. have many common interests and that both co

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