Hurry on EFTA Deal: Norway

Published October 22, 2008

A Norwegian minister has encouraged Canada to "hurry" and implement a free trade deal whose intended coming-into-force date will likely be missed because of last week's federal election.

"My feeling is all the time that we are in a hurry," Tora Aasland, Norway's minister for research and higher education, told Embassy on Monday. "So everything that happens that makes things take a long time is not very good."

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