Tag: Justin Trudeau

• Monday, January 28th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Huawei telecom dispute: Trudeau sacks Canadian ambassador in Beijing

  

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has fired Canada's ambassador to China, John McCallum. It follows controversial comments Mr McCallum made about an extradition case involving a senior executive from the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei. Mr Trudeau said in a statement he had asked John McCallum to step down, but did not offer a reason.

• Saturday, December 1st 2018 - 22:44 UTC

  Mexico, US, Canada sign Buenos Aires treaty to replace NAFTA

  

  The presidents of the United States and of Mexico and Canada's Prime Minister signed Friday in Buenos Aires the new North American trade agreement, known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which is to replace the NAFTA one.

• Wednesday, October 3rd 2018 - 08:17 UTC

  Canada's largest private sector project: US$ 32bn LNG export terminal

  

  A major US$ 31.9bn liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Canada has received the go-ahead from its partners. The project is a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell, Malaysia's Petronas, PetroChina, Korea Gas Corporation, and Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation. It is the single largest private sector investment project in Canada's history.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  Trump hails the launching of the United States/Mexico/Canada trade agreement

  

  After 14 months of talks between the United States and its closest allies, President Donald Trump celebrated the United States Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA, a new trade agreement that is poised to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.

• Thursday, September 27th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  Trump rebuffs Trudeau claiming “Canada has treated the US very badly”

  

  US President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that he had refused to meet Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, accusing Canada of treating the United States “very badly.”

• Monday, July 2nd 2018 - 08:17 UTC

  Canadian retaliatory tariffs of US$ 12.6bn on US goods became effective

  

  Canada began imposing tariffs Sunday on US$12.6 billion in U.S. goods as retaliation for the Trump administration's new taxes on steel and aluminum imported to the United States. Some U.S. products, mostly steel and iron, face 25% tariffs, the same penalty the United States slapped on imported steel at the end of May.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2018 - 06:50 UTC

  Canadian parliament approves recreational marihuana

  

  Recreational marijuana may soon be legal in Canada, after both the House of Commons and the Senate approved the Cannabis Act. Legal sales are likely to begin before the end of the boreal summer after the Senate voted 52-29 on Tuesday night to approve the bill, CBC reported.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  G6 + 1 summit: PM May sides with Trudeau and pays tribute to his leadership

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May has paid tribute to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's leadership after a G7 summit which she described as “difficult”. President Donald Trump attacked America's closest allies in tweets after leaving the meeting in Canada. He said Mr Trudeau was “very dishonest and weak” and “acts hurt when called out”.

• Monday, June 11th 2018 - 07:28 UTC

  Argentina/Falklands “constructive spirit” will be tested at the UN C24 presentations

  

  The constructive spirit and pragmatic attitude towards Argentina/United Kingdom relations and shared interests seems to have spilled positively to international forae, for example the latest OAS general assembly declaration regarding the Malvinas Islands, which does not mention “militarization of the South Atlantic or nuclear arms”, as was common in the Kirchner couple years, and rather keeps to the traditional annual disputed sovereignty claim under the umbrella of the United Nations.

• Monday, April 16th 2018 - 18:22 UTC

  Most Latin American countries cautious or critical about bombings in Syria

  

  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau backed air strikes by the United States and its allies on Syria’s chemical weapons program but Argentina, Brazil and Peru voiced caution during a regional summit about the escalating military action.