Champagne meets with top Chinese officials
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s finance minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is in China to ratify a trade deal and is joined by several Canadian business interest groups, including Brookfield.
Liberal Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne was joined by several business interests, including Prime Minister Mark Carney’s former company, Brookfield Asset Management, while meeting with top Chinese officials in Beijing.
On Friday, Champagne met with China’s Vice-Premier He Lifeng in high-level talks.
Conservatives have highlighted since before the last federal election that Prime Minister Mark Carney holds financial interests in Brookfield’s success. The company holds investments in the People’s Republic of China and has indicated it aims to increase investments in the world’s second-largest economy.
