ASEAN summit over, PM Trudeau arrives in Papua New Guinea for APEC summit

November 20, 2018

Justin Trudeau spent his final morning in Singapore on Friday at a hawker's market. But as the Canadian prime minister jetted off from one Southeast Asian summit to his next — the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) talks in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea — he seemed like the guy with something to sell...

He came to Singapore looking for different kinds of support. And it's not clear Canada has been invited into Southeast Asia's inner circle of influence just yet.

"In terms of areas that are particularly important and exciting, there's no question that the Asia-Pacific is, for me, one of the big places we need to be," Trudeau told about 400 students and guests at the National University of Singapore on Thursday.

But if the East Asia Summit (EAS) was where Canada needed to be, that didn't work out. Canada wasn't invited to the 18-country regional forum this year.

This was excerpted from the 16 November 2018 edition of CBC News.


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