\n Jamil Jivani, Conservative MP for Bowmanville-Oshawa North, is photographed in his constituency office in Bowmanville, on Saturday, May 31, 2025.THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Chris Young\n <\/p>\n
OTTAWA — Conservative MP Jamil Jivani was back in Washington on Wednesday with a handful of Tory colleagues for a meeting with Canadian business interests and United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.<\/p>\n
Canadian Ambassador Mark Wiseman was also in attendance.\n <\/p>\n
The event was hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Canada and happened as Greer has been claiming that Canada has been a tough customer in the ongoing trade negotiations.\n <\/p>\n
Jivani counts Vice-President JD Vance among his close friends and has developed connections within the Trump administration.\n <\/p>\n
During a previous visit to Washington in February for a solo diplomatic mission, Jivani met with both Vance and Greer. He also stopped by the White House and said he spoke briefly with President Donald Trump.\n <\/p>\n
At the time, Jivani said he wanted to contribute to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s efforts to negotiate a new trade deal with the Trump administration.\n <\/p>\n
“The reality is, this is not a partisan issue,” he said in a video statement posted to social media.\n <\/p>\n
Jivani’s office did not immediately respond Wednesday to a request for comment about his latest trip. The meeting was set for Wednesday afternoon.\n <\/p>\n
On Wednesday morning, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was asked who Jivani was meeting with and what he hoped to achieve.\n <\/p>\n
“I don’t have any information on that at this point to share,” he said. “Our MPs have been consistently going to Washington to fight for tariff-free trade.”\n <\/p>\n
Poilievre also said the Carney government “should use every relationship we have as Canadians” to help secure a trade deal with the U.S.\n <\/p>\n
Later in the day, a spokesperson for Poilievre’s office said that “a delegation” of Tory MPs was in Washington “carrying the Conservative party’s Team Canada message.”<\/p>\n
That group included Conservative finance critic Shuvaloy Majumdar, foreign affairs critic Michael Chong and MPs Jacob Mantle and Corey Tochor.\n <\/p>\n
“This is an opportunity to have the kind of direct, practical conversations that can help in the fight to protect and even expand tariff-free trade between our two countries. We expect this to be a positive and productive visit,” said spokesperson Sam Lilly.\n <\/p>\n
Conservative critic for Canada-U.S. trade Shelby Kramp-Neuman was in Ottawa on Wednesday and told reporters she would be headed to D.C. in the coming weeks.\n <\/p>\n
Poilievre \u2014 who did not make a stop in the U.S. capital when he took a trip south of the border last month \u2014 publicly rebuked Jivani following his first visit to D.C. after the backbench MP told a right-wing news outlet he felt Canadians’ reaction to the trade war amounted to an “anti-America hissy fit.”\n <\/p>\n
“He speaks for himself and I speak for the party,” Poilievre said on Feb. 17.\n <\/p>\n
Poilievre would not answer Wednesday when asked whether he still felt Jivani was speaking for himself.\n <\/p>\n
Wednesday’s meeting comes after Greer told a congressional committee last week that there could be trade enforcement action against Canada if U.S. alcohol isn’t returned to the shelves at Canadian liquor stores.\n <\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 29, 2026.\n <\/p>\n
\u2014 With files from Kelly Geraldine Malone in Washington\n <\/p>\n
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