Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday he was suspending the ad in the hopes negotiations would resume on Monday. The Prime Minister\u2019s Office says it had no indication if, or when, negotiations would restart.<\/p>\n
Prior to leaving Ottawa for Kuala Lumpur, Carney gave a muted response to the president\u2019s outburst, saying discussions had been moving forward in specific sectors, such as steel, aluminum and energy..<\/p>\n
\u201cWe stand ready to pick up on that progress and build on that progress when the Americans are ready to have those discussions because it will be for the benefit of workers in the United States, workers in Canada and families in both our countries,\u201d the prime minister said.<\/p>\n
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The ASEAN logo stands near the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ahead of the 47th ASEAN Summit, on Friday. (Chalinee Thirasupa\/Reuters)<\/p>\n
Whether he gets to deliver that message to Trump in Malaysia remains to be seen.<\/p>\n
A senior federal official, speaking on background during the day-long flight, said at the moment bilateral discussions with leading ASEAN countries have been scheduled.<\/p>\n
The main focus will be getting the Canada-ASEAN free trade agreement \u201cover the line\u201d and ready to sign next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we are coming to this region because the countries that make up ASEAN are some of the fastest growing economies in the world,\u201d said the official. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a very dynamic region and I think it’s one that we want to see Canadian exporters have greater access to and we want\u00a0 to demonstrate our partnerships with them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carney has said publicly he\u2019s making it a priority to seek out places where there\u2019s opportunity to drive economic growth for Canadian businesses.<\/p>\n
Most observers have said Canada must be prepared for incremental wins rather than grand outcomes at ASEAN.<\/p>\n
Negotiations toward the ASEAN free trade deal have been complex, said the official. Different ASEAN members have different levels of economic development and different regulatory frameworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Mark Carney is due to arrive in Malaysia on Saturday in search of trade opportunities with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-239387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}