Canadian General Consul Paul Conners
On Wednesday May 9th Faribault Rotary has the pleasure of hearing from Paul Connors Canadian Counsel General from the Canadian Embassy. Paul spoke about two main topics and then answered a few questions from Rotarians. He spoke first about Security and defense, and second about Economic relationships, specifically the NAFTA free trade agreement.
Paul had very positive things to say on all fronts, especially when it came to trade. He commended on the fact that Canada and the United States have the largest two-way trade relationship in the world. We have a very balanced trade according to him. He is confident the NAFTA negotiations are going well, the negotiators working on this meet very regularly and have the "easy stuff" figured out.
They are re-writing the agreement as they go and some of the chapters are completely finished already. It was a delight to have Paul and Mike Flaherty international business developer join us!