Canada, EU working towards ‘historic’ agreement: PM

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that Canada is working towards a "comprehensive and truly historic" economic partnership with the European Union.

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Harper made the comments at a press conference Friday, after meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso. Harper said that Canada and the European Union had agreed "to define the formal mandates for an ambitious, deeper and comprehensive and truly historic economic partnership agreement." More...