Canada (like Mexico) anticipates that we, in the end, will have to make the concessions made during the TPP negotiations but we’ re not prepared to do so in advance of the NAFTA negotiations & without advantageous broadening of the scope of NAFTA analogous to the TPP.  Further, to accept, without resistance (i.e. appeasement), one-off attempts by the US (ex. Softwood, dairy, Bombardier, etc.) to exact concessions before NAFTA negotiations commence only invites a never-ending string of further aggressive demands from Trump & US interests.

This does not mean that Canada has abandoned the strategy of

(a) maintaining cordial relations with the US political & Public Service counterparts so far as appropriate. or 

(b) serious lobbying US business & political interests that have interests in maintaining good NAFTA relations.