President Biden and the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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Biden and Trudeau spoke over the phone on Friday during Biden’s first call with a foreign leader since taking office on Wednesday. Trudeau’s office said in a reading of the talk that the two agreed to “meet next month to further 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. The White House reading of the talk said the two “agreed to speak again in a month,” and the White House press secretary Jen Psaki
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Canada is historically the first overseas trip for a new US president.
The two lectures said that Biden and Trudeau spoke on a range of issues, mainly 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 President recognized that the fundamental priority of both countries is ending the global COVID-19 pandemic. They discussed the collaboration on vaccines and acknowledged that the efforts of the two countries are strengthened by existing exchanges of medical personnel and the flow of critical medical supplies, “said 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 discussed their shared vision of sustainable economic recovery, job creation and growing the middle class,” it continued. “To that end, they discussed strengthening the security and resilience of the supply chain between Canada and the US.”
The White House also said that Biden “acknowledged Prime Minister Trudeau’s disappointment with the decision to revoke the license for the Keystone XL pipeline, and reaffirmed his commitment to maintain active bilateral dialogue and cooperation with Canada. to deepen further “.
Biden this week signed an executive order to revoke a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, the controversial 1,200-mile structure that transported oil from Canada to the U.S. Climate activists had panned the project, saying the pipeline would carry oil made from tar sands – the production of which is carbon intensive – on sacred indigenous lands.
Despite the early disagreement over the Keystone XL pipeline, both Biden and Trudeau have expressed a desire to normalize relationships under the former President Trump
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The previous administration took a more hostile stance towards Ottowa by cutting tariffs on Canadian products and insisting on scrapping the North American free trade agreement and replacing it with a new one. Trump also placed 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 Canadians and President Biden,” Trudeau said at a news conference earlier Friday. “I am really looking forward to working with President Biden.”