#canada-china-relations

#canada-china-relations

Addressing Xi in the Great Hall of the People, Carney said that together we can build on the best of what this relationship has been in the past to create a new one adapted to new global realities. Engagement and cooperation would be the foundation of our new strategic partnership, he said. Agriculture, energy, finance, that's where we can make the most immediate progress.

A leader of the Canadian government is visiting China this week for the first time in nearly a decade, a bid to rebuild his country's fractured relations with the world's second-largest economy - and reduce Canada's dependence on the United States, its neighbor and until recently one of its most supportive and unswerving allies.The push by Prime Minster Mark Carney, who arrives Wednesday,

I had already heard that, historically, Ottawa took a juvenile view of intelligence. I was told lawmakers liked receiving it but not acting on it. Instead of using the insights provided by intelligence reports to help direct policy decisions, they created conditions for a uniquely Canadian iteration of plausible deniability. Instead of the government being able to deny involvement in an important decision, the Canadian version of the concept relied on denying they even knew what was happening.