US FTA proposal: What are the '3 American demands' that became deal breaker for Canada

Canada has called off trade talks with the US after months of negotiations aimed at reaching a deal between the two countries. On Saturday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the suspension of the talks, spelling out three key US demands that ultimately pushed the negotiations to a deadlock.The demands covered Canada's auto industry, its ability to strike new trade deals with other countries, and protections for its language and culture, issues that Ottawa said it could not accept in their proposed form.Carney said that the changes were introduced in the final hours of negotiations and, taken together, moved the talks away from what Canada had earlier viewed as a fair and economically viable agreement.“While we believed earlier this week that we were moving towards a mutually beneficial agreement, in recent days, the United States proposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair, and undermined the net benefits for Canada and…