Building clean abroad: Using climate finance to diversify Canada’s trade - Canadian Climate Institute

Chrystia Freeland leaves the West Block of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Sept. OTTAWA - Former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland says it’s important for national security reasons that Canada do everything it can to diversify trade away from the United States. During a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Thursday, Freeland said it’s dangerous to deepen or maintain a close economic relationship with a partner who “openly says they want to take you over.”