The Globe and Mail: A trade agreement announcement at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Manila would cap a remarkable expansion of relations between Canada and the Philippines. The strategically located country has been playing an outsized role in Ottawa’s four-year-old Indo-Pacific strategy.
…Today, Canada’s diplomatic footprint in the Philippines has grown to about 300 positions, Global Affairs spokesperson Aditee Kissoon said, citing data from early October. This includes locally hired staff and officials from various federal departments, as well as provincial governments and Crown corporations such as Export Development Canada, which opened an office there in 2024…