CBC senior business correspondent Peter Armstrong on U.S.-Canada trade talks collapse

NPR | By Scott Simon

Published August 22, 2026 at 5:43 AM MDT

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NPR's Scott Simon talks to Peter Armstrong, senior business correspondent at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, about the collapse in US-Canada trade talks.

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Scott Simon is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First.

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