Ontario, Oct. 21 -- Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said that Canada had certain issues in trade with China, which she brought up in talks with them, CBC News reported. She said that China needed goods from Canada, just as the opposite is true.

"So, let's be clear that our trade with China at a bilateral basis is about 118 billion dollars. They're our second-largest trading partner. I raised those section sectors during our bilateral conversation," she said.

"But the gist of the interaction and my effort there was to put on the table a strategic partnership framework so that whenever Canada has concerns especially at a trade level that it wishes to raise with China, we do so not on an issue by basis but we do this in the context o...