Prime Minister Mark Carney, centre, shakes hands with other leaders at the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Sunday.

Prime Minister Mark Carney pitched Canada as a reliable trading partner with lots of natural gas and critical minerals at a meeting of Asian leaders as part of his bid to shift trade away from the increasingly protectionist and unpredictable United States.

Speaking at the 11-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit on Sunday, Mr. Carney predicted countries would trade more with each other and less with the United States in the future because Washington under U.S. President Donald Trump is raising the cost of selling into the U.S. market with protectionist tariffs.

“We’re an energy superpower – an unabashed energy superpower,” Mr. Carney said at the A

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