The call came amid the progress of the Mercosur-EU agreement and new trade negotiations.
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President Javier Milei held a call this Friday with the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, in a new sign of the international agenda promoted by the Casa Rosada to open markets, attract investment and reposition Argentina as a reliable country for productive capital.
During the conversation, both leaders discussed the international scene and, in particular, on Argentine economic developments. The contact had a specific axis: to deepen the bilateral relationship with Canada, one of the main global players in mining, energy, trade and investment
The Government emphasized that Canada is the number one investor in mining in Argentina, a key fact for understanding the strategic importance of the call. In the official view, macroeconomic stability and the Incentive Regime for Large Investments made it possible to begin to give execution capacity to projects that for decades were held back by lack of predictability, excessive regulations and an adverse
economic climate.
The conversation also included active economic negotiations between the two countries. These include the Mercosur-Canada Agreement and the Bilateral Investment Treaty, two instruments that could open up opportunities for new businesses in strategic sectors. According to the official report published by the Government of Canada, Milei and Carney highlighted the progress made in negotiating a free trade agreement between Canada and Mercosur, a block that Ottawa defined as the fifth largest economy in the world, with a combined GDP of more than
US$4 trillion. Javier Milei and Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno with Ian Sielecki.
To conclude the conversation, Milei invited Carney to visit Argentina in the coming months, in a gesture aimed at consolidating a bilateral relationship that could gain weight in the country's new economic phase.
