New Prime Minister looks for more trade with China

New Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to lead trade missions with China and India in March as he looks to restart Canadian inbound investment.

Canada is looking to emulate Australia's deal with China and the Globe and Mail reports that former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd is part of discussions.

"We are looking very closely at how Australia built their relationship, and we're talking to leading figures from that period about how we can do something appropriate like that in Canada," an official said.

Canada has an opportunity at the moment because the Trudeau name is held in high esteem in China. His father and former Prime Minister Pierre-Elliott Trudeau visited China three times.

"We have a unique opportunity, given the high regard in which the Prime Minister's father is held in China," the official said. "It isn't hyperbole. They still look at Pierre Trudeau as the first Western leader to open his arms to China, which, in a society that treats history the way it does, is as if it happened yesterday."

Mao and Trudeau in 1973

Had Canada continues on the path set that, the Canadian economy would be inarguably stronger now. Instead, future governments tried to score political points in hopeless human rights sniping.