Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has arrived in Thailand for meetings aimed at expanding Canada’s trade with the Indo-Pacific region.
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum is a group of 21 economies on both sides of the Pacific that work together to break down barriers to trade.
Trudeau is attending the APEC leaders’ meeting Thursday and Friday, in an overnight stop in Bangkok that should yield facetime with government and business leaders.
“How much can be achieved at a meeting like this will inevitably be affected by geopolitical factors,” said Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada CEO Jeff Nankivell.
The question, he said, will be: “Is it possible to get consensus on outcomes documents in the current geopolitical context?”…