Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a fiery left-wing nationalist.

Canada has strong negotiating teams already in place that have experience negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership that ultimately was not adopted, as well as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement — an agreement signed between Canada and Europe last year.

If negotiators don't move quickly, any agreement that is ultimately signed runs the risk of getting bogged down in the approval process as each country seeks to ratify it at home.

That's what happened with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation agreement signed by the Obama administration that Congress failed to ratify before Trump took office and scuttled the deal. Also, political uncertainty could increase in the U.S. after the midterm elections in 2018 and as Canada holds provincial elections that same year.

U.S. Trade RepresentativeAerial Footage Shows Giant Avalanche Trapping an Alaskan Town

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An Alaskan city remains trapped behind a wall of snow after avalanches cut off its only highway late last week.

The Alaska Department of Transportation said several snow slides hit the area near Valdez Friday, closing the roadway to the city of 4,100 people.

Ssnow and ice cover the closed Richardson Highway, near Valdez, Alaska. One of a number of avalanches covered the roadway in the Keystone Canyon, closing the only road access to Valdez, the city at the end of the trans-Alaska pipeline. Alaska authorities said snow 40 feet deep and 1,000 to 1,500 feet long covered the highway. (AP/Alaska DOT&PF)

Another slide dammed the Lowe River in Keystone Canyon, causing water to flood the Richardson Highway.

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