Mark Carney will be the first Canadian prime minister to visit the United Arab Emirates in more than 40 years.

Mark Carney is hunting big game during his two-day visit to the United Arab Emirates, seeking to build relationships with massive investment funds and deep-pocketed companies as Canada looks beyond the United States for economic growth.

The Prime Minister hopes wealthy Gulf investors will see new value in Canada now that Ottawa is pledging to speed up approvals for major resource and infrastructure projects.

The Gulf region, with its trillions of investment capital, is one of several priority regions for Canada, along with Europe and Asia, as it seeks to diversify trade away from the increasingly unreliable U.S. under President Donald Trump , and attract foreign investment i

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