Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and Economic Development Minister Vic Fedeli listen as Ontario Lt.-Gov. Edith Dumont, delivers her speech from the throne at Queen’s Park in Toronto on April 15, 2025. The Canadian Press/Cole Burston
Tariff tensions with the United States and a more pressing need to diversify Ontario’s trading partners are prompting the province’s minister responsible for economic development to pick up the already robust pace of trade missions abroad.
Vic Fedeli, who Premier Doug Ford has dubbed Ontario’s No. 1 salesperson, is in southeast Asia right now. By the end of his trip on Oct. 2 he will have marked trade missions to 15 countries, counting multiple visits to some countries he is more aggressively courting, and he has plans to hit another eight before year’s end.
