Bloomberg: Canada won’t be derailed in its efforts to diversify trade away from the US despite the latest threats from the Trump administration, Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said.
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Canada isn’t negotiating a free trade deal with China, Anand reiterated in an interview Sunday with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. But the country has no choice but to forge ahead with its strategy to double its non-US exports within 10 years, she suggested.
“We need to protect and empower the Canadian economy and trade diversification is fundamental to that,” Anand said. “That is why we went to China, that’s why we will be going to India and that is why we won’t put all our eggs in one basket.”…