Assertion by the Prime Minister on the outcomes of the overall election in Japan

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, at the moment issued the next assertion on the outcomes of the overall election in Japan:

“On behalf of the Authorities of Canada, I congratulate Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on his victory in Japan’s normal election.

“I sit up for working with Prime Minister Kishida to construct again higher from the COVID-19 pandemic and promote higher prosperity for folks on either side of the Pacific.

“Canada and Japan share an in depth friendship, rooted in deep people-to-people ties and a long time of cooperation. We additionally take pleasure in a powerful commerce, innovation, and funding relationship bolstered by the Complete and Progressive Settlement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, which has been serving to companies and staff in each our international locations succeed since 2018.

“We are going to proceed to work carefully collectively in varied multilateral establishments, together with the G7, G20, Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC), World Well being Group, and United Nations. Canada enormously values Japan’s energetic participation within the Ottawa Group, and we’ll maintain working aspect by aspect on this group of like-minded international locations to attain significant reforms to the World Commerce Group, enhance dispute decision, and facilitate international commerce.

“Guided by our shared values and our imaginative and prescient for a free and open Indo-Pacific, we’ll discover methods to make additional progress on the problems that matter most to folks in Canada and Japan – together with advancing gender equality, combatting violent extremism, and combating local weather change. By way of our continued collaboration, we’ll carry our two international locations even nearer collectively.”