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With the United States' 119th Congress set to convene in the new year, the Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary Group will be D.C.-bound to build Canadian connections on Capitol Hill. While outreach with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump dominates the headlines—forcing reporters to track Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plane as it made its unannounced way to Florida for a dinner meeting at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 29—Canadian outreach on Capitol Hill is of equal importance in the U.S.
Former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson, who led the Congressional outreach section in the embassy, said making links to Congress is a permanent part of the embassy’s work in the U.S. “Congress will matter because Trump will respond in part to what he hears from Congress, just as any president does on any measures,” said Robertson, now a senior adviser at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Canada's Embassy in Washington, D.C., is located mere blocks from Capitol Hill.
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