With new or updated trade agreements in place covering trade in North America, with Europe, and with many of its major trading partners in the Pacific Rim, Canada’s trade diversification strategy must increasingly look to the Global South. In the high-growth developing world, ASEAN stands out....

Canadian business and political leaders have long looked to strengthen bilateral economic relations with the ASEAN Economic Community based on its openness to trade, its dynamism and its integration into Asian production chains. Given the shift from an Asia-Pacific to an Indo-Pacific framing for...