在美国威斯康星州主办G20贸易部长会议之际，加拿大正抓住机会加强与其他国家的联系。
As the US hosts G20 trade ministers in Wisconsin, Canada is taking the opportunity to strengthen its ties to other countries.
美国贸易代表贾米森·格里尔周三重申，他与加拿大谈判代表（如加美贸易部长多米尼克·勒布朗）保持着“相当频繁的联系”，并表示在两国贸易战不断升级之际，华盛顿的“大门始终敞开”。
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer reiterated on Wednesday that he is in “fairly frequent contact” with Canadian negotiators like Canada-US Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, adding that Washington’s “door is always open” amid the countries’ spiraling trade war.
但会见G20同行的是国际贸易部长曼尼德·西杜，而非勒布朗——西杜正花时间与欧盟和印度官员密集会晤，因为加拿大准备宣布与前者建立全面伙伴关系。
But it’s International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu’s job, not LeBlanc’s, to meet with G20 counterparts — and Sidhu is spending his time huddling with officials from the EU and India as Canada prepares to announce a sweeping partnership with the former.
周四的欧盟会谈是在欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩本月初提议加拿大成为事实上的欧盟成员国之后举行的，此举激怒了特朗普政府官员。
Thursday’s EU talks come after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed Canada become a de facto EU member earlier this month, riling Trump administration officials.
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的贸易顾问彼得·纳瓦罗周三表示：“加拿大人‘会在你背后捅刀子，也会在你面前捅刀子’。”—— 埃莉诺·穆勒
The Canadians “will stab you in the back [and] stab you in the front,” President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, said Wednesday. — Eleanor Mueller