Why not Africa? That’s the question Canada needs to be asking

There is a rare chance for a renewed relationship between Canada and Africa. Forgoing this means we risk a trillion-dollar opportunity to move in lock-step with a continent where growth rates have not only surpassed every other region of the world, but also exceeded all expectations.

International Trade Minister Mary Ng, right, with Albert Muchanga, African Union commissioner for economic development, trade, tourism, industry and mineral, sign the Global Affairs Canada-African Union Commission Cooperation Framework establishing the trade policy dialogue in Ottawa on May 17, 2023.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LIBERAL MP ARIELLE KAYABAGA

May 29, 2023

Why not Africa? It’s the question that the world is already asking, and must be the question at the centre of Canada’s expansion of trade and investment relationships. There is an unprecedented opportunity for a renewed relationship between Canada and Africa which sheds ...

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