Canadian PM to announce deal

Prime Minister Harper will arrive in Panama on Tuesday after a two-day meeting in Mexico with US President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

Canada has a Free Trade Agreement with both North American countries NAFTA.

The visit will give Harper a chance to meet with a man with similar right wing ideologies. Two-way trade between Canada and Panama reached $149 million last year. The deal with Panama continues one of the Harper government's foreign priorities –.