Carney heads to Beijing as ministers promote fresh federal support for Waterloo, Ont. manufacturers, N.S. curling club – iPolitics
January 14th, 2026
What’s happening on (and off) Parliament Hill, plus the news you need to start your day.
After a brief stopover in British Columbia yesterday to talk to Coastal First Nations leaders about his government’s major projects plans — and more specifically, as Aya Dufour reports, the still-theoretical prospect of a bitumen pipeline through Northern B.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to arrive in Beijing later this morning, with his plane on track to touch down at 8:45 p.m. local time, according to his itinerary.
As Canadian Press reports, he’s expected to kick off his three-day visit by meeting with “the second and third most powerful leaders in China’s communist system: Premier Li Qiang — nominally caretaker of China’s economy and in charge of its cabinet — and Zhao Leji, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress” ahead of a planned tête-à-tête with his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping, the following day.
