The governments of Canada and Ecuador are signing a free trade deal in Ottawa today.
Mujtaba Hussain, a spokesperson for International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu, confirmed a signing ceremony is taking place but said there are no public events scheduled.
Lucero Gutiérrez, a spokesperson for the Embassy of Ecuador to Canada, said in an email that Ecuador’s minister of production, foreign trade and investment Luis Alberto Jaramillo will be at the signing event.
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Several Canadian organizations and civil society leaders have pushed back against Canada-Ecuador free trade talks and warn that a deal will threaten the environment and worsen a human rights crisis in the South American country.
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Negotiations on the trade pact concluded in early 2025 and the proposed deal would see Ecuador effectively remove tariffs from all Canadian imports.
The government’s website says bilateral trade between Canada and Ecuador reached almost $2.2 billion in 2025.
Well after 11 years of this Liberal Government, Canada is essentially a third world nation so we should be trading with like and kind.
Yet again, a country where we import far more from them than they do from us.
I get the idea of room for improvement but suggesting the deal is worth $2.2 billion when it is actually significant less in terms of benefits to Canada.
These two economies have always been one-sided with us importing more than we export. It is otherwise growing at the rate of inflation, so…
While it is good news. Ecuador is a poor country and trades very little of goods Canada requires.
Excellent work folks. Signing this monumental deal representing 0.08% of our GDP
So another deal with a friendly nation which never blocked trade to begin with
His idiots have pathetically low standrds