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TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Quebec Premier Christine Fr\u00e9chette said Thursday that Prime Minister Mark Carney had answered many of her questions about an emerging Canada-U.S. trade agreement<\/a>, but she stopped short of endorsing the deal while the province assesses its potential impact.<\/p>\n

Fr\u00e9chette had said a day earlier that negotiations were \u201cfar from over”<\/a> and that Quebec alone would decide whether U.S. alcohol returns to shelves at the SAQ, the Quebec government corporation that controls most wine and spirits sales in the province.<\/p>\n

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