Everyone here knows that trade is critical to our current and future prosperity, so I am here to talk about our plan to grow our economy, create jobs and level the playing the field so that every worker, producer, farmer, fisher, entrepreneur and investor¬—both women and men—can compete and win on the world stage.
This new feminist policy deliberately focuses on empowering women and girls and on gender equality in order to attain the ambitious global objective of ending poverty by 2030.
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.
Hello. Thank you all for that very warm welcome. If I remember correctly, the last time we all met was on June 9, at the launch of the new Feminist International Assistance Policy.
