The Government of Canada remains committed to build and renew relationships with global partners in order to increase trade, attract worldwide investment, and grow Canada’s middle class.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues his China tour with a visit to the Great Wall of China and a closed-door meeting with senior officials at the National People’s Congress before traveling to Shanghai for a speech to the Canada China Business Council.
Canada has advantages in its relationship with China that other countries don’t enjoy according to Sandra Pupatello, who led trade missions to China as a former Ontario Minister of Economic Development and Trade.
Today’s meetings emphasized the importance of building relationships with worldwide partners over time that result in new opportunities for the middle class and those working hard to join it.
Chinese and Canadian firms have signed 56 deals worth more than $C1.2 billion ($A1.22 billion) at a ceremony, Canadian trade minister Chrystia Freeland says. The pavilion will enable Canadian sellers to tap into China’s rapidly expanding middle class, which now comprises some 300 million people, and also allow Chinese consumers to buy products from Canadian companies online.
“I assure you that we will work hard to make sure that China’s consumers love the Canadian products”, Ma said.
“This announcement will go far in boosting tourism, creating closer ties and deepening the strategic partnership between our two countries”.
Trudeau’s father Pierre, who also served as Canada’s prime minister, also appeared in a Marvel comic released back in 1979. The joint Sino-Canadian projects in such areas as nuclear energy, infrastructure, interconnectivity, modern agriculture and innovation, have great potential.
Trudeau would conclude his eight-day visit to China by attending the G20 leaders’ summit this weekend.
China is the world’s second largest economy, and Canada’s second-largest single-country trading partner.
In 2015, bilateral trade with China increased 10.1 per cent over 2014. The graphic depicts Justin Trudeau in a boxing ring, wearing a tank-top donned with a maple leaf.
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China wants Canada to cut the level of foreign contaminants, known as dockage, considered acceptable in its canola exports, by more than half.
