On July 11th Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a conversation with the U.S. president “on the margins” of the NATO summit in Brussels to discuss bilateral trade tensions. PM Justin Trudeau (1st L) arrives at the NATO summit on July 11, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium The conversation focused on trade, including efforts to revamp the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement and the ramifications for those talks of Mexico’s presidential election, from which left-leaning populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador emerged victorious. The conversation was “positive,” one official said. But Trudeau appeared to be far from Trump’s orbit during the traditional gathering of leaders for the NATO family photo op and ceremony, standing quietly to the side as Trump chatted with Britain’s Theresa May, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel. Trump held several official bilateral meetings, some 2,000 journalists … [Read more...] about Trudeau, Trump talk trade during sideline meeting at NATO summit