Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said immediate action to reduce Chinese tariffs on Canadian goods such as canola was never a realistic outcome for his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The sit-down Friday on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea was the first official bilateral meeting between leaders of Canada and China since 2017.
¡°What the meeting accomplished, which was the objective of the meeting, was to establish that relationship at the highest level for the first time in eight years, and to unlock a few things,¡± Carney told reporters Saturday, a few hours before flying back to Canada.
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