As the Trudeau government fleshes out its Indo-Pacific strategy, Western Canada is seeking more certainty from the Liberals on expanding energy exports to Asia.
"There are people in Ottawa who understand what our energy mix is, and what it has to be in the future," Alberta Trade Minister Rajan Sawhney in an interview this week.Capital Dispatch: Sign up for in-depth political coverage of Parliament Hill
Stephen Nagy, a Canadian who works as a politics professor at the International Christian University in Tokyo, said Western Canada's ties with China mean the region is at the whims of Ottawa's relations with Beijing."During the pandemic -- during the highest point of tension between China and Canada -- trade between Western Canada and China increased," he said.
"There really is, we feel, a major opportunity for western Canadian agriculture to position ourselves as the leading supplier of agri-food products in the region," Ross said for Winnipeg. "It's become a game a bit of a game of Whack-a-Mole, with increasingly less of a cohesive strategy on how to proactively address these systemic issues in a region like the Indo-Pacific."
Still, she said the lack of concrete plans gives provinces a chance to get on the same page and push Ottawa to emphasize certain topics -- though she warned that contradictory demands from provinces would delay Ottawa scaling up its involvement in the region. She argued that a domestic clash over softwood lumber policies hampered Ottawa's response to disputes with the U.S.
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