Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to attend the 47th Asean Summit in Kuala Lumpur next month.
This was confirmed on Friday (Sept 26) by Yasir Naqvi, the parliamentary secretary to Canada's Minister of International Trade and Secretary of State (International Development).
00:00Canada's new government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Mark Carney, is fully committed to Canada's strategic partnership with ASEAN and clearly recognizes ASEAN's centrality in the Indo-Pacific region.
00:19Domestically, the Canadian government is making generational investments in our infrastructure to enable us to diversify our commercial relationships with reliable partners here in the Indo-Pacific, in particular as a major supplier of clean energy and ultra-low carbon liquefied natural gas to the region.
00:41Anchored in our steadfast and reliable partnership with ASEAN and underpaid by these concrete actions at home, we are looking to rapidly expand our relationships with you, our ASEAN partners.
00:55To that end, Prime Minister Carney is looking forward to attending next month's ASEAN Summit as a guest of the chair and to the opportunity to take our partnership to new heights, including through concrete initiatives that are comprehensive, ambitious and innovative.
01:13Though this will be Prime Minister Carney's first trip to Asia since taking office, this will be the fourth consecutive time a Canadian Prime Minister has participated in the ASEAN Leaders Summit, a demonstration of Canada's strict, fast commitment to ASEAN and to the countries of Southeast Asia as set out in Canada's Indo-Pacific strategy.
01:36His visit will serve to build on the extensive work that we are already doing together, including through sustained high-level engagement and nearly 50 years of close cooperation with ASEAN.
01:50For example, most recently, my colleague, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anita Anand, participated in the ASEAN Regional Forum and the Post-Ministerial Conference, where she had deep and substantive discussions with many of her ASEAN counterparts on shared priorities such as promoting international and regional security.
02:11Also in July, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Agri-Food, Keith McDonald's, led a trade mission to Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines, during which he met with his excellency Dr. Khao in Jakarta to discuss cooperation on food security.
02:29Our business-to-business relationships are also extensive and rapidly expanding, building on and leveraging our robust people-to-people ties.
02:39In the two years since we established a strategic partnership, Canada has organized historic Team Canada trade missions in several ASEAN countries, including Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia.
02:55These missions involve over 630 Canadian business representatives from nearly 400 Canadian organizations.
03:03As we work to conclude our ASEAN-Canada free trade agreement negotiations, ideally by next year, our business and investments relationships are poised to expand even further and more quickly in support of our shared goals of trade diversification and economic growth.
03:21Economic modeling predicts that an agreement with ASEAN could increase Canada's GDP by 2.54 billion U.S. billion dollars and ASEAN's GDP by 6 billion U.S. dollars.
03:39The potential benefits are clear.
03:51The potential benefit of the flavour of our outstanding partners of the US Department of Technology is close to all companies that are well-educated and more expensive countries, which we feed them, is the potential benefit of the EU.
03:52The potential to be retained, will be recognized as they are paid for the future of their supplies and benefits of the UN-Sós-D от FACESCIALS Association.
03:54Our business-industry association level offers an inner-in-nin-THE-до-S-S-B.
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