Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said after a meeting with China’s premier that he sees major opportunities for the countries to expand energy and agricultural trade, and expects to eventually sit down with President Xi Jinping.
Carney has sought to ease tensions with the Asian superpower that flared up under his predecessor, Justin Trudeau. U.S. protectionism under President Donald Trump has brought Canada’s need to diversify trading relationships into sharp focus, and China’s tariffs on Canadian canola, pork and seafood are cranking up the economic pain.
"There is a very broad range of commercial relationships that already exist and a much larger range of opportunities for both countries,” Carney said Tuesday following the meeting with Li Qiang on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York.
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