PM to push for free trade

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to announce free-trade negotiations with Japan — Canada’s fourth-largest trading partner — when he heads to Asia for a summit in March. Harper is expected to make a stop in Tokyo to meet Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda while in Asia for the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea. The free-trade deal could mean more cars being imported into Canada from Asia by removing the current 6.1-per-cent duty on vehicles imported from outside of North America. .