OTTAWA — While the Liberals insist a Pacific Rim trade bloc should welcome anyone who meets its standards, an internal document suggests Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants China kept out.
Trudeau's comments stem from a call he held last fall shortly after the swearing-in of U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss, who has since been replaced.
The language seemed abnormally frank to Carleton University economics professor Meredith Lilly, who served as Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former trade adviser. "CPTPP is a consensus partnership among all of the trading partners. And we're going to have to work through how we treat the accession requests," she told a conference held by the Canadian Global Affairs Institute .
"It's quite important for CPTPP to maintain its open architecture," she said. "But the barriers to entry should be extremely high, in such a fashion that it's quite unlikely that a country like China would qualify." The Chinese embassy in Ottawa said it has noticed growing interest among Canadian experts in China joining the bloc, noting it would triple its consumer base and give Canada "tremendous" opportunities. The delegation says it's "in close contact" about membership in the deal.
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