President Biden and the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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Biden and Trudeau spoke by telephone on Friday in Biden’s first call to a foreign leader since taking office on Wednesday. Trudeau’s office said in a reading of the conversation that the two had agreed to “meet next month to advance the important work of renewing the deep and lasting friendship between Canada and the United States.”
It was not immediately clear whether the meeting would be personal or virtual. According to the White House’s reading of the conversation, the two ‘agreed to speak again in a month’ and the White House press secretary Jen Psaki
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Canada was historically the first foreign trip for any new US president.
According to the two readings, Biden and Trudeau spoke on a variety of issues, most notably the need to combat the coronavirus pandemic and strengthen US-Canada cooperation on other issues such as climate change and strengthening economic cooperation.
“The Prime Minister and the President have acknowledged that both countries’ fundamental priority is to end the global COVID-19 pandemic. They discussed the collaboration on vaccines and acknowledged that the efforts of the two countries are being strengthened by the existing exchange of medical personnel and the flow of critical medical supplies, according to the Canadian reading of the call. ‘The two leaders discussed working closely together to defeat COVID. -19 by responding to new variants and following expert advice.
“The prime minister and president have discussed their shared vision for sustainable economic recovery, jobs and middle-class growth,” he continued. “To that end, they discussed strengthening the security channel and the resilience of Canada and the United States.”
The White House also said that Biden “acknowledges the disappointment of Prime Minister Trudeau over the decision to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and reaffirms his commitment to maintaining an active bilateral dialogue and further deepening cooperation with Canada. . “
Biden signed an executive order this week to scrap a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, the controversial 1,200-mile structure that transports oil from Canada to U.S. climate activists, pawned the project, saying the oil from tar beach would carry – the production of which was carbon intensive – over sacred indigenous lands.
Despite earlier disagreements over the Keystone XL pipeline, both Biden and Trudeau have expressed a desire to end the relationship between former President Trump
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The previous government adopted a more contradictory attitude towards Ottowa, with tariffs on Canadian products, and demanded that the North American Free Trade Agreement be scrapped and replaced by a new one. Trump also described Trudeau as ‘very dishonest and weak’, and Peter Navarro, Trump’s trade adviser, once said ‘there is a special place in hell’ for the prime minister.
“We have so much alignment – not just me and President Biden, but the Canadian and President Biden,” Trudeau told a news conference earlier Friday. “I’m really looking forward to working with President Biden.”