Prime Minister Mark Carney hailed on Thursday Canada's improving ties with China as well as the leadership of President Xi Jinping, declaring that their nations were charting a new course in cooperation at a time of global division and disorder.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is entering a “new era of relations” with China and that his visit to Beijing sets the stage for talks on areas where the two can be “strategic partners.”

Canada was one of the first Western countries to recognize communist China, establishing ties in 1970 under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

A primer on Mark Carney’s high stakes trip to Beijing, and how the U.S. and China – two problematic superpowers – have him walking a diplomatic tightrope.

A red carpet lined with a military guard, a small girl offering flowers and no other fanfare marked the beginning of the first official visit of a Canadian prime minister

On the first trip by a Canadian leader to China in eight years, both sides are signallng the start of an era of better relations.   China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, meeting his Canadian counterpart on Thursday,

Moe has repeatedly called for an end to China's punishing tariffs on canola. The country placed a 100 per cent tariff on Canadian canola in March 2025.