Veteran Steve Verheul will head the team. He was chief
agriculture negotiator for a number of free-trade negotiations and is thoroughly
familiar with Canadian farmers’ interests.
His right-hand negotiator, specializing on the agriculture
file, will be Kirsten Hillman who also served as chief agriculture negotiator
during the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations.
Both are headed for Washington, D.C., where the negotiations
are scheduled to begin the middle of August.
