Carr told reporters that the government remains interested in striking a deal with China, if it helps female entrepreneurs, Indigenous peoples and promotes other Canadian values. When Trudeau was in China last year, one Canadian businessman who has been there a while told me the golden rule of doing business is: Never try to impose your own values. “We are not asking Ottawa to share the same ideas as us,” said an editorial in the state-owned English-language newspaper, the Global Times. If Ottawa is still paying lip-service to its progressive trade agenda, it seems to have smartened up on the perils of negotiating a full-scale trade deal with the Chinese. The sectoral approach was the focus of a paper by the Public Policy Forum think tank last month.

Source: National Post November 14, 2018 23:26 UTC