Deepening Canada’s clean technology relationship with China is a priority for the Government of Canada. Canada can play a key role in helping China meet its green growth demand and climate change objectives while creating benefits for Canadians.
Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Jim Carr, will hold a call-back with Canadian media to discuss the outcomes of his mission to China.
Deepening Canada’s clean technology relationship with China is a priority for the Government of Canada, and Canada’s nuclear industry can play a key role in helping China meet its climate change objectives while creating new business opportunities and jobs for middle-class Canadians.
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is greener than any other fossil fuel and more affordable than many renewables, which means it will play a significant role as we transition to a clean energy future. Canada is the world’s fifth-largest producer of natural gas, and creating the conditions to open access to global markets will help to create good, middle-class jobs for Canadians.
It’s a privilege to be joined on this trip by such an impressive delegation of Canadian business, government and Indigenous leaders. Their presence reflects the importance of partnerships in developing Canada’s abundant natural resources. My thanks to all of you for being here.
It’s certainly appropriate that we meet tonight in a room named for Alvin Hamilton because, as Canada’s Minister of Agriculture in the 1960’s, he pioneered the sale of wheat to China.
He saw the potential for our two countries to do more. To go further. And to break new ground. Tonight, I want to do the same in the area of natural resources.
Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Jim Carr, will travel to China from June 5 to 9, 2017, to build on Canada’s and China’s strong trade and investment relationship and to promote Canada’s resource products and expertise, including forest products, energy and clean technologies.
Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Jim Carr, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, and the Minister of International Trade, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, will make an announcement regarding softwood lumber followed by an opportunity for media questions.
Canada’s forest industry sustains hundreds of thousands of good, middle-class jobs in communities across our country. Many families depend on the industry’s continued success and our government continues to fight vigorously to defend the interests of Canadian softwood lumber producers.