{"id":822842,"date":"2026-07-24T10:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822842\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:26:14","slug":"canada-ecuador-signing-free-trade-deal-in-ottawa-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822842\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, Ecuador signing free trade deal in Ottawa \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA \u2013 The governments of Canada and Ecuador are signing a free trade deal in Ottawa today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mujtaba Hussain, a spokesperson for International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu, confirmed a signing ceremony is taking place but said there are no public events scheduled.<\/p>\n

Lucero Guti\u00e9rrez, a spokesperson for the Embassy of Ecuador to Canada, said in an email that Ecuador\u2019s minister of production, foreign trade and investment Luis Alberto Jaramillo will be at the signing event.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInternational Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, April 24, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld<\/p>\n

Several Canadian organizations and civil society leaders have pushed back against Canada-Ecuador free trade talks and warn that a deal will threaten the environment and worsen a human rights crisis in the South American country.<\/p>\n

Negotiations on the trade pact concluded in early 2025 and the proposed deal would see Ecuador effectively remove tariffs from all Canadian imports.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s website says bilateral trade between Canada and Ecuador reached almost $2.2 billion in 2025.<\/p>\n

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 24, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

-With files from Dylan Robertson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2013 The governments of Canada and Ecuador are signing a free trade deal in Ottawa today.\u00a0 Mujtaba…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-822842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822842","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=822842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}