Agriculture Minister and US Agriculture Secretary to meet in P.E.I. barn

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The meeting — on MacAulay’s farm in Midgell, P.E.I., where he was born, raised and worked as a farmer — is a chance for the agriculture counterparts to discuss trade issues in a potentially more amicable setting.

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“It’s very important for agriculture ministers to meet in the barn,” MacAulay said, noting there will be “Island hospitality” before they get down to business.

He said he shares an excellent rapport with Trump’s agriculture secretary and that Perdue is a “free trader.”

“What we intend to do is sit down and deal with the issues at hand and hopefully enhance the relationship and the trade deal between Canada and the U.S., and of course Mexico,” MacAulay said, adding that trade between Canada and the U.S. quadrupled under NAFTA.

“We just want to make sure that things keep working properly… and we put a deal together that’s right for both countries.”

MacAulay and Perdue are also expected to board a lobster fishing boat near Cardigan, P.E.I., and go on a deep sea fishing tour before they visit a potato farm in Souris, P.E.I.

They’re also expected to tour Greenwich National Park and have a “small social evening,” MacAulay said.  

The one-day visit comes a year after MacAulay went to Savannah, Ga., for a trilateral meeting with Perdue and their Mexican counterpart, Secretary of Agriculture Jose Calzada.

— By Brett Bundale in Halifax.

The Canadian Press