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“We have reached many new consensuses in economic and trade area”, Li said on Thursday, as quoted by Xinhua news agency, after signing several bilateral agreements with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The two countries have agreed to initiate an annual dialogue mechanism between the Chinese premier and Canadian Prime Minister, starting this year.

Finally he added that maintaining stable relations with China is in the interests of both states and offered more opportunities to Canadians.

This meeting of the two leaders in Canada comes less than a month after Trudeau’s visit to China surrounding the G20 summit in Shanghai, which included the signing of $1.2 billion in trade deals.

With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the audience, Li brought up the memory of the Canadian communist recognized as a hero in China, surgeon Norman Bethune, to illustrate the strong history between the two nations. The poll revealed that 46 percent of Canadians would support the agreement, which is 10 percent more than in 2014.

“We know that there is a huge amount of untapped potential in our commercial relationship”, Trudeau noted. On Wednesday, just before Li’s plane landed in Ottawa, opposition parties attacked the plan in parliament.

But many Canadians remain suspicious of free trade and of China.

Trudeau called the “historic nature” of their back-to-back visits to each other’s countries a chance to deepen and strengthen the collaboration and co-operation between the two countries on a broad range of issues.

“I think China’s particular interest in pushing this with Canada at the moment is to then be able to say to the US and Australia, ‘They did it, why won’t you?”‘

A photo released by the Prime Minister’s Office showed the two leaders lounging in the back yard with glasses of beer while one of Trudeau’s kids hammed it up on a trampoline in the background.

Canada is the world’s largest canola exporter, and exports over 40 percent to China, CBC News said.

Li, meanwhile, praised a reboot of Sino-Canadian relations after a decade of cooling, which had been kicked off during Trudeau’s visit to China at the end of August.

He said they are pleased to start dialogue in a consistent and responsible way. He warned that if China that “if we abolish the death penalty, innocent people will lose their lives”.

“We are going to continue to have frank, honest discussions about the things that matter to our people and to the worldwide community at large”, Trudeau said, adding that helping the middle class remains the dominant priority.

In the briefing note, Jean further describes Canada’s response to China’s 2014 campaign, dubbed “Operation Fox Hunt”, an outgrowth of President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign in which he “vowed to swat down both “tigers” and ‘flies, ‘ regardless of their level, in efforts to clean up the Communist Party in China”.

“I can tell you firmly that China is endeavoring to build itself into a country of rule of law, based on global law and worldwide norms”, he added.