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February 23, 2021

President Biden to Meet Virtually with Candian Premier Justin Trudeau
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is meeting today with Joe Biden,
who's carrying out his first bilateral meeting as president. The two
will meet virtually, as the U.S.-Canadian border remains largely closed
due to the pandemic. They're expected to discuss vaccination campaigns,
the climate crisis and Trudeau's opposition to Biden's decision to
cancel the Keystone XL pipeline. 

The meeting comes a day after Canada's House of Commons voted to declare
that China is committing genocide against more than a million minority
Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province. The nonbinding resolution passed on
a vote of 266 to 0, with Trudeau and members of his Cabinet abstaining.


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