Canada's ambassador to China says a trade pact with Canada likely won't be reached until China shows flexibility on certain controversial policies.

John McCallum says most of the work he is doing in Beijing right now is focused on bridging policy gaps between Canada and China on agricultural market access, wages and gender equity, and on addressing issues with the Asian nation's human rights record.

"We are doing our best to persuade China to behave in what we would regard as the more reasonable way," McCallum told Chris Hall, host of CBC Radio's The House, on Thursday...

This was excerpted from the 26 October 2018 edition of CBC News.