The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin
Trudeau, today announced that Paolo Gentiloni, Prime
Minister of the Italian Republic, will visit Canada on April
20 and 21, 2017.
During the visit, Prime Minister Gentiloni will meet with Prime
Minister Trudeau to deepen the close bonds between our two
countries, as well as to discuss the G7 Leaders' Summit,
commercial opportunities created by the Canada-European Union
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), and other
international issues.
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"Canada and Italy are
close allies and friends, and enjoy a strong trade and investment
partnership. This relationship is reinforced by the dynamic
Italian-Canadian community of about one and a half million
people. I look forward to meeting with Prime Minister Gentiloni
to discuss our respective priorities for this year's G7 Summit,
and how CETA will create good, well-paying middle class jobs on
both sides of the Atlantic."
— Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau, Prime
Minister of Canada
Quick Facts
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Canada and Italy have
a strong commercial relationship. In 2016, Canadian exports
to Italywere valued at
about $2.3
billion and Italian imports to Canada amounted
to $7.5
billion. In 2015, Italian foreign direct investment
in Canada was
valued at close to $1.6 billion and
Canadian direct investment in Italy was valued
at $539
million.
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Canada and Italy enjoy
particularly strong and historic people-to-people
ties. Canada's large
and dynamic Italian-Canadian community, numbering close to 1.5
million, is particularly interested and engaged in all aspects
–cultural, social, economic and political – of our bilateral
relations.
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Canada and Italy have
a strong and longstanding academic relationship, reinforced by
inter-university and private-public academic agreements that
generate new ideas and research projects, build relationships,
and encourage youth mobility.
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Italy will host
the 43rd G7 Leaders' Summit on May 26–27, 2017,
in Taormina.
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