SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany – Prime Minister Stephen Harper used Sunday’s opening of the G7 summit to push European leaders to ratify the comprehensive Canada-EU free trade agreement.Harper’s office said he talked up the trade pact at the G7’s first working session of the day on the fragile global economy.”Prime Minister Harper encouraged European members of the G7 to swiftly implement the job-creating Canada-EU trade agreement,” his office said in a statement.Harper met European Council President Donald Tusk, and the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, where he was expected to push the deal.Harper said nothing about the trade deal going into …read more
Source: National Newswatch
