Maninder Sidhu: “I want to use the meeting to pitch Canada as an 'open, predictable and rules-based' trading partner.”

If you have one customer buying your product, they will set the price. But if we’re able to open up the market and have more customers, that gives our industry a competitive advantage.

They (Canadian businesses) would get to the finish line, another state leader would swoop in, a trade minister would swoop in and make a call and billions of dollars of deals would be lost (to competitors).

Our partnership with (Turkey), as a NATO ally and strategic partner in the crossroads of Europe and Asia, has even greater potential and I am ready to advance it.

Every meeting at the G20 is a chance to open more doors for Canadian workers and businesses, and we are moving at speed to seize it.