Prime Minister Mark Carney is pitching Canada as a reliable partner for Southeast Asia, one that’s committed to rules-based trade at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump is rewriting global trade norms.

He’s heading to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, known as ASEAN, seeking to drum up investment into Canada that will help achieve the nation-building plans that formed a central plank of the Liberals’ election platform.

In a speech previewing his government’s first budget, Carney said Wednesday that Canada has set a goal to double exports to markets outside the United States in the next decade, some $300 billion of new trade, as Canada tries to diversify its markets.

About 24 hours after Carney’s speech, Trump abruptly called off trade negotiations with Canada, citin

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