Why Trudeau suddenly danced to Trump's NAFTA tune

As my colleague Sean Higgins reports, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rapidly decided to dance to President Trump's NAFTA tune, the moment a U.S.-Mexico agreement was announced.

We learned as much on Wednesday when Trudeau announced that "the Americans and Mexicans very much want to try and get things done by Friday and we’re seeing if we can get to the right place by Friday, but as I’ve said all along it has to be the right deal for Canada and that’s what we are staying firm on." Trump had given Trudeau a deadline to join a U.S.-Mexican trade deal by Friday or face exclusion.

But while Trudeau's caveat of "the right deal" might sound like he's playing tough, the opposite is true. In fact, the Canadian chief executive has been outmaneuvered by Trump's phone-call-announced deal on Tuesday with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and his incoming successor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

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