PoliticsCanada advancing ‘middle power strategy’ with new trade pacts, Anand says

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada is moving quickly to diversify trade, aiming to double non-U.S. trade over the next decade. She spoke on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in Atlanta, where Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s attendance highlighted divisions within the group. Talks on a deal with Washington have broken down, prompting Prime Minister Mark Carney to pursue trade pacts aggressively.