Trudeau In Tough Spot Over Fight Against ISIS

Trudeau invited the Chinese leader to visit Canada, an invitation he first extended at the summit the previous day. About 1.5 million Canadians are of Chinese descent, or 4.5 percent of the population, government figures show.

“I’m well aware we have an opportunity to set a fresh approach in our relationship right now”.

Xi told Canada’s current prime minister that China will never forget Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s decision to open diplomatic relations.

“You know, there’s a level of of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say ‘we need to go green fastest… we need to start investing in solar.’ I mean there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about of having a dictatorship that he can do everything he wanted that I find quite interesting”.

“There are many, many discussions that we’re going to be able to build on, but I’m not going to speculate on what those can be”, Trudeau said when asked about investment rules.

Trudeau said on Monday that USA officials had not raised any security concerns so far relating to the refugee plan.

Trudeau, who last month won an election fought partly on security and the refugee issue, on Sunday said “Canada is pleased to be stepping up” to take in the refugees and will integrate them into the country.

Trudeau also met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

Trudeau turned up a meeting of business and labor leaders on Sunday morning and stood patiently for several minutes as dozens of people shook his hand and posed for selfies.

Fabius was standing in at the summit for Hollande, who remained in France to respond to Friday’s attacks, which he called an act of war.

Last year, two Quebec-born Muslim converts staged separate attacks on Canadian soldiers, near Montreal and on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, killing two.

Trudeau has said Canada will continue to make a strong military contribution in the fight against Islamic militants, but it won’t be from the air.

According to the Indonesian Foreign Ministry, the two leaders also discussed efforts to boost cooperation over climate change as Jokowi underlined Indonesia’s hope that the upcoming COP21 climate conference in Paris will produce a new worldwide agreement. However, in recent days, a number of nations have stepped up their air strikes in hit ISIS. US fighters hit 116 fuel trucks in eastern Syria in a bid to cripple the infrastructure used by extremists to produce and transport oil as a revenue source.

Canadian CF-18s were also in action in Iraq, striking an ISIL fighting position southeast of Haditha.