Canada depends on trade for 25% of its GDP and needs to develop its agriculture and natural resources to access new markets. This document discusses opportunities for Canada to expand trade with Brazil and South America through various existing and potential trade agreements. It notes that Canada has been in trade talks with Mercosur since 2011 but that the bloc does not always deliver benefits to member countries as intended. The document advocates that Canada focus on pursuing fair bilateral trade deals with specific countries in South America rather than blocs and that it invest in infrastructure and streamline regulations to facilitate expanded trade.

1. 2019 Election – Trade –
Brazil and Canada
| Paul Young CPA CGA
August 28, 2019

2. Agenda
 GDP size
 Canada and Brazil – Trade
 Canada and Brazil – FDI
 South America GDP Growth
 South America / Corruption
 Tweet – Brazil and Canada (Trade)
 Banking Sector
 Poverty / Income inequality

3. Introduction
 Canada depends on trade as it accounts for 25% of GDP.
 Canada needs to continue to develop its agricultural and natural
resources as part of getting those goods to new market

4. GDP Size (Express in USD)
Source - https://countryeconomy.com/gdp/brazil
Brazil
Brazil Canada

5. Canada Trade with Brazil and South America
Trade talks with Mercosur are not new to Canada. Harper started talks back 2011. Liberals are great at trying look like they are doing things on trade when in fact
little will get done under their watch.
https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2018/03/minister-champagne-to-travel-to-chile-and-paraguay-to-help-create-jobs-for-canadas-middle-class-by-
expanding-access-to-international-markets.html
Source - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/canada-and-mercosur-trade-and-investment
FYI – Mercosur bloc never deliver the benefits to all the countries involved with the bloc. It would be nice if the Liberals would do basic research before going out
on trade mission.

6. Canada and South America (FDI)
Source – Stats Canada

7. Global Forecast
Source - Scotiabank

8. Corruption
Source -
https://www.transparency.org/cpi2
018#downloads

9. Blog – Brazil and
Canada (Trade)
https://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/exporting-and-
importing/canada-pushing-for-amazon-protections-in-free-
trade-talks-with-brazil-237994/
@justintrudeau do you always push your social agenda. I hope
Brazil pushes back about you dumping sewage into
waterways.
@jairbolsonaro – Trudeau does not speak for all Canada, but
his own agenda.

10. Banking Sector
Source
https://www.euromoney.com/artic
le/b1dd6ftq4zf6hr/digital-retail-
latin-americas-banking-revolution

11. Source - https://latinamericanpost.com/19590-latin-america--is-there-a-solution-for-economic-inequality

12. What’s next
• Canada needs to build on deals with Chile and Colombia - http://www.farrow.com/article-canadas-
current-free-trade-agreements
• Canada needs to stop pushing its social justice agenda.
• All trade and FIPA need to be fair deals
• Canada needs to invest in pipelines, port capacity as well as making the tax system more competitive
• Canada needs to streamline regulations
• Canada needs to expand to South America but it should be do with specific country agreements and
not a particular zone.