Canada and Mexico on Tuesday called for a 16-year renewal of the North American free trade agreement with the United States, in hopes of binding the three countries to a pact that President Donald Trump has openly questioned. In a letter Monday, Ottawa's minister in charge of Canada-US trade Dominic LeBlanc said, "Canada recommends the renewal of the agreement for another 16 years."

WASHINGTON - Canada has sent a letter to the United States and Mexico recommending that the three countries renew the continental trade pact.

In a letter Monday to his counterparts, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc stressed the mutual benefits to all three economies of the free trade region that spans North…