Canadian Ambassador to Argentina Stewart Wheeler confirmed that the two countries are in talks to modernize an agreement to promote and protect investments the pair originally signed in 1992. 

The goal is to attract mining investments, a sector President Javier Milei considers to be crucial for economic growth and one in which the North American country has ample experience in. 

“It’s about 30 years old, and both sides want to modernize it,” said Wheeler, who arrived in Argentina in 2025. These negotiations, coupled with ongoing talks over a free trade agreement between Canada and the Mercosur bloc and Milei’s pro-market reforms, are encouraging signs for the ambassador.

“I’m probably the first optimistic Canadian ambassador in Argentina in a generation,” he told the Herald.

Things weren’t always this way. According to Wheeler, the embassy’s commercial branch has often found it “frustrating to do........

© Buenos Aires Herald