By Daniel Huot
The current Asian economic crisis has disturbed trade with most countries visited by Team Canada trade missions and has raised questions about the missions’ effectiveness, according to one of the North-South Institute’s top researchers.
Ted Paterson, director of finance and special projects at the North-South Institute in the Byward Market, says many of the deals signed by businesses accompanying Prime Minister Jean Chrétien during the Team Canada missions to Asia in the past four years could be in jeopardy.