Bid to ditch dispute panel sends free-trade into black hole

Few Canadians are savvy enough to even guess at all the tricks US negotiators might use to get an edge in a trade deal. Ottawa might well do the same. But without rules to govern our actions when we disagree, free trade would seem to be spinning into a black hole. Still, the Trump administration has tabled an ambitious list of demands, one of which is to simply eliminate the dispute resolutions panels. Reuters