Liberals say trade diversification ‘bearing fruit,’ but booming exports to U.K. cloud picture

The increase in Canada's exports to the United Kingdom has amounted to 67 per cent of all non-U.S. export gains since 2024.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has pledged to double Canada's non-U.S. exports by 2035.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

May 5, 2026

With the Liberal government enacting its pledge to double non-United States exports by 2035, there are positive signs of early progress, but much of the growth is powered through a boom in Canada-United Kingdom trade and gold exports.

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