{"id":822936,"date":"2026-07-24T11:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822936\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:30:19","slug":"canada-ecuador-signing-free-trade-deal-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822936\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, Ecuador signing free trade deal in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784892619_291_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>International 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<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 24, 2026 | 2:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The governments of Canada and Ecuador are signing a free trade deal in Ottawa today. <\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, April 24,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-822936","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\/822936","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=822936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}