Minister Ng and Minister Boissonnault meet with international partners at OECD Ministerial Council Meeting

June 12, 2022 – Ottawa, Ontario – Global Affairs Canada

This week, the Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development, and the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance, attended the 2022 Ministerial Council Meeting of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

At the meeting, Minister Ng and Minister Boissonnault reiterated Canada’s commitment to working with OECD members to address the economic and trade impacts of Russia’s unjustifiable, unprovoked, and illegal invasion of Ukraine. They encouraged international partners to maintain open and predictable agricultural markets and trade to ensure food security for Ukraine.

On the margins of the OECD meeting, Minister Ng met with counterparts from the European Union, as well as from Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Costa Rica, Sweden, and the United States to advance Canada’s relationships with these economies.

Minister Boissonnault spoke at a panel on the work done to improve gender equality, which Canada considers a core value and a pillar of good economic and social policy. Minister Boissonnault highlighted Canada’s historic and transformative investments towards building a Canada-wide early learning and childcare system, which will create new jobs and growth, and get parents — especially mothers — into the workforce. At a session on the OECD’s tax work, Minister Boissonnault also reiterated Canada’s commitment to the two-pillar plan for international tax reform through the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework.

OECD members, including Canada, endorsed a joint statement on their commitment to maintaining and strengthening the rules-based international economic order, to advancing our global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and to building a more sustainable and inclusive future. OECD ministers also adopted road maps for the accession to the OECD Convention for Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Peru, and Romania, which sets out the process and requirements for these countries to become OECD members.