EU trade chief blasts Trump “walls”, cites Canada as partner on openness
OTTAWA — The European Union’s trade chief says Canada is a key partner against the job-killing, anti-trade sentiment coming from Donald Trump’s administration.
EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom delivered that hard-hitting message in a speech Monday in Toronto, where she visited Canadian businesses that she said would benefit from the Canada-EU free trade agreement.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Strasbourg, France last month shortly after the European Parliament ratified the broad transatlantic trade pact.
Trudeau used the trip to reinforce not only the benefits of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, but to affirm the broader merits of rules-based liberalized trade to a nervous continent.