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Obama Backs Trudeau in Unprecedented Endorsement

Associated Press

   TORONTO - Barack Obama is urging Canadians to reelect Prime Minster
   Justin Trudeau, an apparently unprecedented endorsement of a candidate
   in a Canadian election by a former American president.

   Obama tweeted Wednesday that he was proud to work with Trudeau and
   described him as a hard-working, effective leader who takes on big
   issues like climate change.

   Obama says the "world needs his progressive leadership now, and I hope
   our neighbors to the north support him for another term."

   Trudeau is in a tough reelection fight ahead of Monday's parliamentary
   elections.

   University of Toronto history professor Robert Bothwell says an
   endorsement of candidate in a Canadian election by a former U.S.
   president has never happened before.

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