Lieutenant-General (Retired) the Honourable Andrew Leslie, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada-U.S. Relations), will host a town hall meeting on NAFTA modernization on Wednesday, November 1, 2017, in Hamilton, Ontario. The meeting is open to the public.
Canada plays a leadership role in fighting corruption and creating a level playing field for Canadian businesses at home and abroad. The Government of Canada expects Canadian organizations operating overseas to act in accordance with Canadian laws and the laws of the countries in which they do business.
The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, will make an important announcement on the crisis in Myanmar.
The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will participate in a panel discussion with Frank McKenna, Deputy Chair of the TD Bank Group, at the 11th edition of the Toronto Global Forum on October 30, 2017. This event is organized by the International Economic Forum of the Americas.
Canada welcomes the decision by Guatemala’s highest court to find the application of the death penalty in civilian cases to be unconstitutional. We hope this important step leads to the full abolition of executions in all circumstances.
Canada welcomes the impartial report issued by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism. We are deeply concerned by this report’s findings, which demonstrate that the Assad regime and Daesh are responsible for killing scores of people using chemical weapons in Syria.
As I welcome all of you—colleagues and friends from the Americas—to Toronto for this Third Ministerial Meeting of the Lima Group, I want to acknowledge that we gather today on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation.