The APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), established in 1995, provides a forum for business and political leaders in the Asia-Pacific region to meet and discuss issues related to trade and economic cooperation. ABAC comprises as many as three individuals from each of the 21 APEC members, with business representatives appointed by APEC leaders. Canada’s ABAC representatives help advance Canadian business interests in the Asia-Pacific region. The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada acts as Canada’s ABAC’s secretariat.
Canada is further deepening its strategic economic relationship with Asia-Pacific nations, which offer enormous potential for Canadian businesses and opportunities to create good-paying jobs for Canada’s middle class.
Matt DeCourcey, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced $2.6 million in funding to support the Pacific Islands region.
Matt DeCourcey, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, today concluded his visit to Fiji and Samoa, during which he attended the 48th Pacific Islands Forum and related meetings in Apia, Samoa.
The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, today issued the following statement concerning Hurricane Irma:
The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement on the situation in Myanmar:“Canada remains deeply concerned by the critical and worsening situation in Rakhine state and its impact on neighbouring Bangladesh.”
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 Thursday, September 7, 2017, in Kamloops, British Columbia.
Building on the progress made in the First Round of the renegotiation and modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, Chrystia Freeland, United States Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer, and Mexican Secretary of the Economy, Ildefonso Guajardo, today successfully concluded the Second Round of negotiations, which took place in Mexico City from September 1 – 5.
Canada is deeply concerned by today’s UNHCR report that over 123,000 refugees have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh since the beginning of violence last month.
