The visit will take place just hours after the government agreed to remove a reference to Sikh extremism from a report on terrorism
Justin Trudeau walks alongside Harjit Singh Sajjan as he arrives to attend the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Brussels on July 11, 2018.
Trudeau and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan will speak at the Ross Street Gurdwara in Vancouver, then partake in the city's Vaisakhi Parade to mark the Sikh holy day.The visit comes a day after the Liberals agreed to make a change to the 2018 Public Report on the Terrorism Threat to Canada, which drew the ire of the Sikh community when it was released in December.
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