With Canada’s new Indo-Pacific strategy set to be released next month, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly is warning businesses against deepening ties with China, saying there are “geopolitical risks” involved.
“What I would like to say to Canadians doing business in and with China—you need to be clear-eyed,” Joly said during a speech at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy in Toronto, on Nov. 9.
“The decisions you take as business people are your own,” she said. “As Canada’s top diplomat, my job is to tell you that there are geopolitical risks linked to doing business with the country.”…