François-Philippe Champagne, Canadian Foreign Minister: “Switzerland and Canada are natural allies”

His time in Switzerland was deceptively quiet. A brief respite that took Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne to Bern on Monday to celebrate the 75th anniversary of bilateral relations with his “good friend Ignazio,” and then to Geneva to meet with the heads of major international organizations. But in reality, Canada and its diplomacy are in crisis management mode: the Trump administration reimposed tariffs on its aluminum on August 16, and Ottawa is at loggerheads with China over the fate of Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder.

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