What China and Canada can learn from CETA

Laying the groundwork, taking it slow, and keeping the public informed are keys to success.

Chrystia Freeland, then Canada's trade minister, met with Martin Schulz, then the European Parliament's president, in October, 2016 as part of a blitz of meetings and phone calls over several months that eventually helped to seal the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the EU. Photograph by Melanie Wenger, courtesy of the European Union

Opinion

BY ROBERT HAGE

May 24, 2017

Canada has a problem. Since Pierre Trudeau’s government, Canada has been trying to diversify its trade away from the United States, first to Europe and second to Asia. China, with the world’s second largest national economy, is an ideal prospect. Canada just concluded the second round of explora...

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