James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, on behalf of Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, announced that Canada has formally...
Editorial (Canada-Asia Viewpoints - Op-Ed) September 2012
While Canada has a legacy to build on Asia and a strong economic
interest in doing so, the materialization of a solid national strategy
to secure Canada’s place in Asia remains to be seen....
Editorial (Canada-Asia Viewpoints - Op-Ed) July 2012
Against a backdrop of ambivalence on the part of some toward the TPP, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada has just published the results of its most recent survey of the attitudes Canadians...
Editorial (Canada-Asia Viewpoints - Op-Ed) July 2012
As another round of CETA negotiations takes place in Brussels this week, the Canadian government must know that an early and good trade agreement with Europe is crucial to Canada’s new economic and...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Canada will join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a free trade agreement currently under negotiation by nine Asia Pacific countries: Australia, ...
The Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, Ed Fast, met with Australia’s Minister of Trade and Competitiveness, Craig Emerson, in Canberra to discuss ...
Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, announced that he is visiting Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei from February 12-15, 2012 for meetings on the...
Video (Video) November 2011
Stockwell Day, Former Minister of International Affairs and
APF Canada Distinguished Fellow, recently completed a tour of the areas
devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan...
Prime Minister Harper and three of his senior cabinet ministers spent much of the last week at two major international gatherings in Asia. The Seoul G20 meeting on 11-12 November was followed by...
As new players, particularly from Asia, crowd for a spot in the emerging and existing institutions of regional and global governance, Canada’s position and status is in flux. While Canada...
Editorial (Canada-Asia Viewpoints - Op-Ed) November 2010
2010 is a milestone year and Leaders will be pressed to present a new vision at this month’s APEC Summit in Japan. In 1994, Canada was among the eighteen economies that established the Bogor Goals,...
