Chinese billionaires’ message to Trudeau: open trade and investment even further
OTTAWA — The head of a group of China’s most powerful business leaders is calling on Justin Trudeau to open Canada’s trade and investment doors even wider to the Asian superpower.
Several members of the exclusive China Entrepreneur Club — often referred to as the billionaires club — met with the prime minister Tuesday for the second time in less than two months.
The entrepreneurs had planned to press Trudeau to ease what they see as “excessively rigid regulations” that hold back Chinese investors, club president Ma Weihua said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
“(Trudeau) himself expressed very clearly to support the business collaborations in the two countries,” Ma said through an interpreter as club members attended a business luncheon hosted by Invest Ottawa.