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He said he had reassured the USA president about Canada’s continuous support for the mission.
Their 23-minute meeting covered a range of topics, including the fight against Islamic extremism, the refugee crisis and the economy.
The prime minister and his wife Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau have been invited to Washington and are expected to go early in the new year, it was revealed.
“Canada will and must remain a strong member of the coalition”, Trudeau said after a meeting with US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of a trade summit in Manila.
Trudeau, whose father Pierre served as Canada’s prime minister for a total of 15 years, showed off his bilingual skills, opening his remarks to reporters in French, before switching to English.
Trudeau replied: “So young, and yet so cynical”.
“We make no apologies for that, but I also think we have to recognize if we want to preserve this planet for our kids and grandkids, we’re going to have to shift increasingly away from carbon emitting energy sources”, the president said.
Canada past year deployed 69 military trainers to northern Iraq to train Kurdish militia, as well as six CF-18 fighter jets that have conducted 1,121 sorties in Iraq and Syria as of November 15.
“There were loopholes here that were unfortunately skirted, that need to be solved, both for Canada’s interest and for the sake of our good relationship with neighbors”, Trudeau said.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered nothing but a “legislative solution” to the loud clamor for Canada to take back a cargo of allegedly toxic garbage shipment.
Trudeau has repeatedly said he wants to consult with Canadians and Parliament before moving forward on the massive 12-country Pacific Rim trade pact.
Trudeau and Obama are on the same page on bringing Syrian refugees to North America and working together to push reluctant countries to adopt a binding climate change agreement at the upcoming global summit in Paris.
This did little to endear him to Obama, who vetoed Keystone XL earlier this month, saying it would send the wrong signal at a time when the world needed to do more to combat greenhouse gas emissions.
“It’s going to be a wonderful time of strengthening ties between our two countries both on the economic, on the security, on the engagement with the world and on the personal level”.
A copy of a declaration that the leaders will issue following their talks, seen by The Associated Press, said they “strongly condemn all acts, methods, and practices of terrorism”.