One year on and CETA is gaining strength

We will continue to keep Canadians and Canadian businesses in mind when we are working to expand trade diversification. It is our job to open more doors and make sure that Canadians have access to global markets.

Jim Carr, pictured with Finance Minister Bill Morneau on May 29, 2018, at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa. Canada's success depends on our government's ability to diversify trade. The EU is the world's second largest economy and Canada's second largest trading partner after the United States. As we look to our neighbour to the south and the intensifying trade situation we find ourselves in, it is evident that Canadian jobs and Canadian families depend on the success of CETA, writes Jim Carr. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY INTERNATIONAL TRADE DIVERSIFICATION MINISTER JIM CARR

October 1, 2018

Global trade impacts the lives of middle-class Canadians every day. From the blueberries you put in your oatmeal in the morning,to the mackerel you cook at night for dinner, Canadians are very much a part of important global relationships that impact the lives of millions of people around the world ...

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