Trudeau to meet with premiers November 23 ahead of Paris climate summit

The annual G20 leaders’ summit is followed immediately by a leaders summit for Asia Pacific countries in the Philippines, after which Trudeau returns to Canada for the first minister’s meeting before leaving again for London, Malta and Paris. “We are ushering in a new era of openness and transparency in Canada”.

“I believe in investment rather than austerity”.

His mandate says he must create “a compensation benefit for firefighters, police officers, and paramedics”, come up with a “coordinated national action plan on post-traumatic stress disorder, which disproportionately affects public safety officers”, and take action to ensure “the RCMP and all other parts of your portfolio are workplaces free from harassment and sexual violence”.

The G20 will likely promise new measures on infrastructure and trade as part the “inclusive” growth agenda that host Turkey has advanced, wrote John Kirton, the University of Toronto expert on summitry in a recent analysis of the Turkish agenda.

– Will the Liberals endorse another pipeline project now that their favoured option, the Keystone XL pipeline to the USA, has been killed by presidential order?

The prime minister says a decision on when to withdraw fighter jets from the U.S.-led coalition bombing Islamic militants in Syria and Iraq is still days or weeks away and will be done in conjunction with allies.

“We will have a climate briefing by top climate scientists for the first ministers, and my own cabinet, to be followed by a working dinner”, Mr. Trudeau told reporters Thursday.

Trudeau and Obama share an ideological bond.

The government says previous Canadian emissions goals were not achieved and that it is more important to work with the provinces to put in place the policies to address climate change than to set arbitrary targets.

Trudeau said “conversations on the economy and security will dominate our discussions”, including the need to maintain vigilance in the fight against terrorism.

Trudeau said Thursday he is committed to consulting with Canadians on the TPP, and having a full debate in Parliament on it. “High Commissioner Vishnu Prakash congratulated the Prime Minister on his election, observing that he was honouring 1.2 billion Indians and the large Indo-Canadian community by celebrating Diwali with them”, the High Commission of India in Ottawa said in a statement.