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Minister of Worldwide Commerce, Export Promotion, Small Enterprise and Financial Growth Mary Ng seems as a witness at a Senate standing committee on overseas affairs and worldwide commerce in Ottawa, on Dec. 15.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Senators are warning Commerce Minister Mary Ng that Ottawa could also be falling behind its friends in establishing deeper commerce ties with Africa.
The Senate foreign-affairs committee has been finding out for months whether or not World Affairs Canada is responding to the nation’s diplomatic wants.
Ng took senators’ questions, which ranged from how Canada will type deeper ties within the Indo-Pacific as to whether diplomats are doing sufficient to leverage the data of Canadians residing overseas.
Additionally they expressed considerations to Ng that the U.S. has finished extra to start out commerce talks with an African group that spans a lot of the continent.
The ethics commissioner discovered on Wednesday that Ng had damaged the Battle of Curiosity Act when she didn’t recuse herself from a contract her workplace awarded to the agency of certainly one of her buddies.
Senators didn’t query Ng in regards to the ruling and as a substitute caught to the subject of overseas affairs.
