The National Post reports in its Monday edition that Canadians are about to learn what the Trump administration wants to do with the North American free-trade agreement. A London Free Press dispatch to the Post reports that President Donald Trump is set to release a list of objectives as early as Monday. American law requires the administration publish a list of its objectives entering trade talks. The administration hopes to start negotiations by Aug. 16 and the law requires this list be posted on-line 30 days in advance. The U.S. has signalled conflicting approaches. Mr. Trump keeps threatening to rip up the trade agreement in the absence of a major renegotiation. His vice-president, Mike Pence, recently exuded collegiality and promising a new NAFTA that would be a "win-win-win." The signals to Congress have been equally contradictory. In a leaked draft of a letter to lawmakers, the administration showed a desire to play hardball and seek changes that would be deemed non-starters by the other countries. It later released a bare-bones, modest version of that letter. Those mixed messages are due in part to philosophical differences within Mr. Trump's adviser about how aggressive to get on trade.