There is backlash in Washington over Canada’s plan to deepen its ties with the European Union and Republican senator Susan Collins warned against that evolving relationship.

Collins, from the state of Maine, is warning Prime Minister Mark Carney against strengthening Canada’s economic and political ties to the European Union.

“That doesn’t help rebuild the good relationship that we once had and that I want us to have again,” the Republican senator told CBC News correspondent Katie Simpson at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

Mike Crawley, Katie Simpson at CBC News: Republican senator warns Carney against tightening Canada’s links to European Union

CBC’s Katie Simpson headed to Capitol Hill to talk to U.S. lawmakers — and one of them warned against that evolving relationship.