TIFF 2023 carries on despite Hollywood strikes, announces world premiere of Atom Egoyan’s ‘Seven Veils’

During his recent delegation to Beijing—the first by a Canadian prime minister since relations between the two countries became strained in 2018—Mark Carney agreed to allow 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into the Canadian market at a reduced tariff rate. The move was presented as a pragmatic reset that could draw joint-venture capital back into Canada’s auto corridor and offer relief to an industry squeezed by United States president Donald Trump’s trade war. With Ottawa attempting to patch its trade relationship with Beijing, it felt like the right moment to speak with Dan Wang. Wang...