{"id":4692,"date":"2018-04-10T15:58:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T19:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=efb9617a53212b445790dcfe8f0db493"},"modified":"2018-04-10T15:58:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T19:58:29","slug":"china-wants-no-progressive-elements-in-any-free-trade-deal-with-canada-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/10\/china-wants-no-progressive-elements-in-any-free-trade-deal-with-canada-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"China wants no \u2018progressive\u2019 elements in any free trade deal with Canada: envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; China&#8217;s ambassador says his country firmly rejects Canada&#8217;s attempts to entrench labour standards in a free trade pact.<\/p>\n<p>Envoy Lu Shaye says Canada&#8217;s so-called progressive trade agenda has no place in a free trade agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was unable to persuade China&#8217;s leaders to formally entrench labour, gender, environment and governance issues in the negotiating framework of free trade talks.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau spent four days in China in December but left without a formal commitment to moving the free trade talks past the exploratory phase into formal negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Lu says Canada&#8217;s insistence on pushing labour standards in the NAFTA talks with Mexico to raise wages would only lead to the shuttering of Mexican auto plants and lost jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Lu says starting a free trade negotiation with Canada would send a strong message to the world as it contends with the Trump administration&#8217;s &#8220;America First&#8221; protectionism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &mdash; China&rsquo;s ambassador says his country firmly rejects Canada&rsquo;s attempts to entrench labour standards in a free trade pact. Envoy Lu Shaye says Canada&rsquo;s so-called progressive trade agenda has no place in a free trade agreement. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was unable to persuade China&rsquo;s leaders to formally entrench labour, gender, environment and governance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4693,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions\/4693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}