Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon landed earlier today in Hangzhou.
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Those are “not easy conversations to have”, but are necessary ones, Trudeau said at a reception held by the Canada-China Business Council in Shanghai.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday said he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the importance of freedom of expression and acceptance of diversity, and encouraged China to do more to protect human rights.
Earlier Thursday, the Trudeau government announced that Canadian and Chinese companies had signed 56 new commercial contracts and agreements worth $1.2 billion.
China wants Canada to cut the level of foreign contaminants, known as dockage, considered acceptable in its canola exports, by more than half.
Addressing the banquet, Trudeau says he’s hoping to revive a relationship between Canada and China that cooled during his predecessor’s tenure.
Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire with their daughter Ella-Grace take a walk along the Great Wall of China.
Having done it all from dancing bhangra beats to attending pride parades, Canada’s liberal, feminist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is undoubtedly the coolest head of state on the globe right now.
“I do believe that your current visit to China will have an important influence on further deepening the strategic partnership between our two countries”, Zhang told Trudeau through an interpreter. “But I know this visit to China – first time as prime minister of Canada – will certainly leave you a deep and new impression”.
While there, Trudeau announced that the two countries would co-operate on the development of Chinese national parks.
Larry Weber looks at Canada’s wheat exports and sees no reason why canola can’t follow suit.
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China, which accounts for about 40 per cent of Canadian canola exports, was scheduled to implement new regulations on September 1 that allows one per cent of dockage per tonne of canola. Trudeau did not say how much money Ottawa would put toward the newly established Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which has been set up to provide other countries in the region access to capital for projects like transportation, power and telecommunications. The Canadian Pavilion makes it possible for Canadian businesses large and small to directly reach Chinese consumers.
