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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, during a meeting at Government House, in Bangkok, Thailand, on Nov. 17. POOL/Reuters Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s tour of Southeast Asia includes a brief stop in Bangkok, which is a visit aimed at showing Canada is serious about forming deeper ties with the region. The two-day visit to Thailand is for Trudeau to take part in the leaders’ meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, a group of 21 economies on both sides of the Pacific that work together to break down barriers to trade. “Showing up is critically important. In Asia in particular, face-to-face relationships are vitally important,” said Timothy Dattels, one of Canada’s three representatives to the APEC Business Advisory Council. “Long-term relationship building is absolutely critical to business; it’s not all just done over the phone, at all,” said Dattels, an investor specializing in the region. He noted that major pl...

A boat passes France’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, in Saint-Nazaire, in an undated handout photo. Christophe Beyssier/The Canadian Press France’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, which was developed by Canadian energy giant Enbridge Inc. ENB-T in partnership with EDF Renewables and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, officially opened Wednesday. The 480-megawatt Saint-Nazaire wind farm consists of 80 turbines off the coast of the Loire-Atlantique region of France. It is expected to power the equivalent of 400,000 homes annually, or 20 per cent of the Loire-Atlantique region’s electricity consumption. The two-billion-euro project was developed as part of the French government’s aim to grow the country’s renewable power sector. French president Emmanuel Macron has said that France aims to have around 40 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity in operation by 2050, which would work out to around 50 offshore wind farms. Calgary-based Enbridge, which has a 25.5 ...

Singapore's trade minister Chan Chun Sing, speaks next to his Canadian counterpart, James Carr, during a meeting of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, May 16, 2019. Esteban Felix/The Associated Press Carlo Dade is the director of the Trade and Investment Centre at the Canada West Foundation. There are more questions than answers in the federal government’s developing Indo-Pacific strategy, which is designed to help Canada navigate a world where China is a dominant economic force. For Canadian businesses, the most puzzling question is probably why Ottawa is not aggressively pursuing the country’s only real competitive advantage in the region: the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. The CPTTP is one of the very few areas where Canadian businesses are on par with its competitors in the Pacific Rim and ahead of U.S. companies that want but cannot have a real trade agreement in th...

Eileen Dooley is a talent and leadership development specialist and a leadership coach based in Calgary Early in my career I worked at a national office, which also had employees in four regions, each representing an area of the country: Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario and Western Canada. To say that nobody understood each other would be an understatement. Conversations with the group, especially on national projects and activities went something like this: National office: Here is what we need the regions to roll out … Them (in no particular order): 1. You don’t understand us. 2. We are big and have lots of resources so we will do what we want. 3. No. This is not going to work here (angry tone). 4. We have so few resources, so we will take whatever you give us. It was predictable, and not all that progressive. More time was spent listening to criticism of content and process, as well as defending decisions, than being productive and co-operative. The national office wanted things to look ...