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British High Commissioner to Canada Rob Tinline says his government is waiting for the Canadian government to fully return before deciding whether to restart talks on a potential bilateral trade deal after negotiations fell apart at the beginning of last year.
When the Canadian government is “fully in place,” the U.K. government will need to “work out whether there is a landing point [on a trade deal] and whether we want to pick that up,” Tinline said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday.
“We paused it a little bit over a year ago because we couldn’t see a landing point,” he added. “Since then, obviously, …