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The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada is supporting the Government of Canada’s Team Canada Trade Mission to India by bringing a delegation of Canadian women entrepreneurs to Mumbai and Bengaluru in mid-October 2026. 

Led by The Hon. Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade, the Team Canada Trade Mission will help Canadian businesses explore commercial opportunities and build relationships in the Indian market.

APF Canada’s delegation of entrepreneurs includes women-led companies in healthtech, cleantech, renewable energy, and agrifood. Participating entrepreneurs will connect with potential partners in India through business meetings, market briefings, site visits, and networking.

Alongside the mission, APF Canada will convene executive women’s roundtables on Canada-India commercial relations in Mumbai and Bengaluru, bringing together Canadian and Indian business leaders to explore women’s leadership, cross-border networks, and opportunities for commercial collaboration. The discussions will consider how sustained relationships can help women-led businesses access markets and contribute to stronger Canada–India economic partnerships.

Building on APF Canada’s participation in the Team Canada Trade Mission to Japan earlier this year, this initiative forms part of the Foundation's Women’s Business Mission to Asia Series, supporting women entrepreneurs in expanding internationally and advancing Canada’s trade diversification across the Indo-Pacific.

This initiative is made possible through the generous support of the Government of Canada's Women Entrepreneurship Strategy and the Mission Series' Official Airline Partner, Air Canada.

PolyMonde, en collaboration avec la Fondation Asie Pacifique du Canada et Le POINT (Polytechnique International), vous invite à une conférence consacrée aux enjeux stratégiques et économiques auxquels fait face la Corée du Sud. La conférence sera l’occasion de mieux comprendre les transformations et les défis auxquels la Corée du Sud est confrontée, tout en mettant ces enjeux en perspective avec ceux du Canada.

La Fondation Asie Pacifique du Canada et le United States Studies Centre organiseront conjointement le Dialogue stratégique parallèle Canada–Australie au centre-ville d’Ottawa.

S’appuyant sur la déclaration conjointe Australie–Canada de mars 2026, ce dialogue d’une journée réunira des représentantes et représentants gouvernementaux, des spécialistes du milieu universitaire et des responsables des politiques publiques afin d’établir une feuille de route stratégique en vue d’approfondir la coopération bilatérale en matière d’économie et de sécurité.

Réparties en quatre séances ciblées, les discussions porteront sur des enjeux communs cruciaux auxquels font face les deux puissances moyennes : le renforcement des chaînes d’approvisionnement en minéraux critiques, la constitution de réserves, la sécurité énergétique régionale dans un contexte de perturbations mondiales, l’élargissement de la coopération industrielle en matière de défense ainsi que l’avancement de la diplomatie multilatérale dans l’Indo-Pacifique.

Joignez-vous à nous le jeudi 8 octobre, dès 8 h 30, à l’Université de Montréal pour une discussion sur l’évolution des enjeux de sécurité en Asie de l’Est et du Sud-Est. La rencontre examinera un vaste éventail de questions, allant des préoccupations traditionnelles en matière de sécurité et de la sécurité maritime aux conflits en cours et aux risques d’escalade régionale. La discussion réunira Nathalie Sambhi, chercheuse indo-pacifique associée à Verve Research, ainsi que Ronan Tse-Min Fu, chercheur à l’Academia Sinica.

Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy released in February identifies securing supply chains for key inputs as a pillar of defence industrial capacity, and the federal government has committed to a dedicated plan for the production, processing, stockpiling, and procurement of defence-critical minerals. 

Meanwhile, China's export controls now reach defence end-users directly, and allies are moving quickly with instruments of their own. 

Co-organized by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and the University of Ottawa through their Canada-Indo-Pacific Critical Minerals Hub initiative, this Exper Roundtable seeks to address the challenges in building the connective tissue between Canada's defence industrial policy, its critical minerals policy, its domestic industrial strategy, and its international partnerships.

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Trois ans après que les contrôles à l’exportation imposés par la Chine ont mis davantage en évidence la vulnérabilité des chaînes d’approvisionnement en minéraux critiques, les gouvernements alliés ont engagé des sommes considérables afin de développer des chaînes d’approvisionnement de remplacement. Bien que le financement public dans les économies avancées ait quadruplé depuis 2023, les capacités de raffinage sont devenues plus concentrées — et non moins concentrées. Les investissements demeurent par ailleurs principalement regroupés en amont, dans l’extraction minière, plutôt que dans les capacités de transformation, où se situe pourtant le véritable goulot d’étranglement. 

Dans ce contexte, cette table ronde d’experts, organisée conjointement par la Fondation Asie Pacifique du Canada et l’Université d’Ottawa dans le cadre de l’initiative Centre sur les minéraux critiques du Canada et de l’Indo-Pacifique, examinera deux questions centrales :

• La boîte à outils actuelle destinée à bâtir des chaînes d’approvisionnement de remplacement est-elle adéquate?
• Dans quels domaines une coopération renforcée entre le Canada et les pays de l’Indo-Pacifique pourrait-elle davantage contribuer à la résilience des chaînes d’approvisionnement? 

How ready is the Indonesian business community to seize the opportunities offered by the Canada-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)? Findings from the Kadin Indonesia Institute survey show that 84.4 per cent of respondents have either never heard of or know very little about the Agreement. Interestingly, a majority of respondents are already able to identify potential sectors and channels for doing business with Canada.

Through a collaboration between the Kadin Indonesia Institute and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, these findings are highlighted in the Insights Paper “Indonesian Business Perceptions of the Indonesia–Canada CEPA,” exploring the gap between business awareness and the utilization of Canada-Indonesia CEPA opportunities.

The 2026 Indo-Pacific Forum is taking place as Canada actively considers the next phase of its Indo-Pacific Strategy. Since the Strategy's launch in late 2022, Ottawa has increased Canadian visibility in the region and laid the groundwork for robust and meaningful co-operation with various Indo-Pacific partners. 

The task now, of course, is to follow through on these commitments – not only to reap the benefits of what these partnerships can deliver for Canadians but also to demonstrate that Ottawa's Indo-Pacific focus is not wavering amid upheaval in its relationship with the United States or the appeal of closer ties with Europe.  

The day’s discussions will benefit from the insights of APF Canada’s Indo-Pacific Research Fellows – experts from Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam – on issues that are at the heart of Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, namely, trade, investment, and resource partnerships; defence and security co-operation; and frontier technologies. These discussions will equally benefit from the participation of some of Canada’s top foreign policy thinkers. 

The day will open with remarks from Jeff Nankivell, APF Canada's President & CEO, and conclude with a keynote address by Dr. Evan Feigenbaum of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, followed by networking among the Forum’s participants.

On the margins of the Indigenous Women in Industry (IWI) Summit, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada will host a half-day training session for IWI Summit registrants on building an export-ready business. 

With presentations from supporting organizations including the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, Export Development Canada, the Business Development Bank of Canada, and Réseau des Femmes d’affaires du Québec, the session will help participants understand what to consider when gearing up to export, the opportunities for Canadian businesses in Asia and Europe, and the resources available to companies interested in expanding into new international markets. 

A panel of seasoned entrepreneurs will share their export journeys, including successes and setbacks, and share tips to avoid some of the pitfalls many companies face when accessing international markets. 

Hosted by Global Affairs Canada and EntrepreNorth and inspired by Weaving Our Worlds Together, this Lounge event brings together Indigenous women entrepreneurs, international partners, government representatives, and business leaders to connect and build meaningful relationships. 

Through facilitated, small-group discussions, participants will share experiences and explore opportunities for trade, investment and cross-border collaboration.

Designed to foster practical connections and knowledge sharing, the Lounge creates new pathways for global business and economic co-operation.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech in Davos earlier this year has stimulated a global debate on what the "middle power moment" is, is not, and must aspire to be. This talk presents a Southeast Asian perspective on who the middle powers are; how the middle power moment is unfolding across Asia and the broader Indo-Pacific amid the global polycrisis; and why Canada and ASEAN member states must work more closely together toward a converged middle-powership to cultivate mutually beneficial partnerships across sectors. 

Dr. Cheng-Chwee Kuik, an APF Canada Indo-Pacific Visiting Scholar, argues that although Canada and the ASEAN states will be neither principal allies nor sufficient partners to one another, a survival-driven middle-powership remains not only desirable but imperative. 

Dr. Cheng-Chwee Kuik is a Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, and his presentation will be based on his new book, Theorizing Hedging: Explaining Shifts and Variations in Alignment Choices (Cambridge University Press, 2026). 

L’augmentation des investissements canadiens et étrangers, conjuguée à une présence militaire accrue, pourrait faire de l’Arctique canadien une cible plus importante de menaces hybrides, notamment de cyberattaques, d’attaques contre les infrastructures essentielles, ainsi que de manipulation de l’information et d’ingérence étrangères.

Cet atelier de deux jours, organisé conjointement par la Fondation Asie Pacifique du Canada (FAP Canada), la Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Canada (KAS Canada) et Pendulum Geopolitical Advisory, examinera des modèles permettant aux communautés nordiques et autochtones de renforcer leur résilience civile face à ces menaces. Les discussions s’appuieront sur des exemples et des leçons tirées de l’Europe et de l’Indo-Pacifique.

Join us at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy for a talk with APF Canada's Indo-Pacific Visiting Scholar Dr. Cheng-Chwee Kuik, Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, on his new book, Theorizing Hedging: Explaining Shifts and Variations in Alignment Choices (Cambridge University Press, 2026).

Professor Kuik argues that hedging — not balancing or bandwagoning — is the modal behaviour of non-great powers navigating high-stakes uncertainty, and offers one of the first theoretical accounts of strategic hedging in world politics. He will explain not only why smaller states hedge, but also why their alignment decisions shift and vary over time.

Professor Kuik will then apply his framework to the current strategic environment, examining how Southeast Asian states are calibrating their relationships with China and the United States, as well as with other middle powers, including Canada.
 

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A Special Lecture for MANA Mo 2026
Guest Speaker:  Prof Jay L. Batongbacal

Has your Kakehashi experience inspired you to want to return to Japan? Join us for a special online forum with presentations by the Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO), to learn about options for studying in Japan, Japanese higher education, and scholarship opportunities that can help make your dream a reality. 

This English-language event is open to all Canadian & U.S. Kakehashi alumni.

Asian investors are being approached by multiple Canadian stakeholders in parallel. As Canada cannot afford to approach Asian capital with fragmented or inconsistent messaging at this pivotal moment, APF Canada is hosting this event on the margins of Canada’s Investment Summit to convene a variety of key Canadian players to exchange views on how best to take the momentum of the Summit forward in a specifically Asian context. The goal is to come out of this milestone week with a shared understanding of key messages and what each player can do to contribute to achieving tangible investment results for Canada from Asia.

APF Canada's Vice-President, Central Canada Office, Christine Nakamura, is a panellist at this event.