If U.S. president-elect Donald Trump wants to sit down and renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, Canada says it's ready to talk.
David MacNaughton, the country's ambassador to Washington, says Canada would be ready to come to the table.
MacNaughton says NAFTA has worked well for all three countries, but acknowledges that every deal can be improved.
Speaking on a conference call with journalists, MacNaughton says he's not ready to go public with details of what Canada would seek in an updated agreement and would save that for the discussion table.
He did say he'd appreciate seeing free trade in lumber, a constant irritant.
Upgrading the 1993 agreement was a major promise in Trump's successful election campaign; Trump says if the U.S.'s neighbours don't agree to renegotiate it, he'd move to scrap the deal - a move trade observers say could be quite complicated.