WASHINGTON, D.C --
Commerce Minister Mary Ng says the current blockades alongside elements of the Canada-U.S. border show the significance of fortifying commerce ties between the 2 nations.
Ng is doing simply that at the moment as she meets with officers in D.C. for the third time in as many months.
She met Sunday with U.S. Commerce Consultant Katherine Tai and at the moment with Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who sits on a Senate subcommittee on worldwide commerce.
She says nobody introduced up the blockades, which for a number of days compelled the closure of the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont., the one busiest industrial hyperlink between Canada and the U.S.
If something, Ng says, the shutdown proved the purpose she is consistently making to American colleagues: that the commerce relationship between the U.S. and Canada is vitally vital to the economic system on either side of the border.
Ng says regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada-U.S. commerce reached a report stage of $450 billion final yr.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Feb. 28, 2022.