Organizers of a trade conference in Hong Kong say former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien has been taken to hospital there.

Tung Chee-hwa, a former leader of the semi-independent Chinese territory, told attendees at the U.S.-China Trade and Economic Relations Forum that Chretien arrived for the conference feeling poorly and was hospitalized as a precaution.

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He says the two were supposed to have breakfast Tuesday morning.

Chretien served as CanadaB次元官网网址檚 prime minister from 1993 to 2003.

Expanding trade with China was a theme in ChretienB次元官网网址檚 time in office and heB次元官网网址檚 continued working on business links between China and North America since he went back to private life.

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