Canada's Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault on Saturday leaves for Beijing to join talks on fighting climate change and preserving biodiversity, the first Canadian minister to go to China in four years.
The calls to cancel these talks are rather ill-founded. Shutting down diplomacy only hurts future ventures and our ability to exert influence (however small it may be). Considering the impact China has on global pollution and emissions, everyone, Canada included, needs to take part in offering solutions and deals that China could at least consider.
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