A reception meant to cap off a day of meetings between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Italian counterpart was abruptly cancelled on Saturday after protesters blocked entrances to the venue and kept key figures, including the guests of honour, from getting in.
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The disruption marked a tumultuous ending to an otherwise cordial day of meetings in Toronto, during which Trudeau and Miloni said they agreed to establish the Canada-Italy Roadmap for Enhanced Cooperation. The two G-7 members plan to review progress on the development of the roadmap at a meeting this June in Italy.
The two got into a public spat last year after Trudeau criticized Italy's stance on LGBTQ2S+ issues in a meeting with Meloni at the G7 leaders' summit. He was reacting to her government's move to limit the recognition of parental rights to only the biological parent in families with same-sex parents.On Saturday, Meloni touted a number of her priorities leading the G7, including artificial intelligence, the role of the Indo-Pacific and respecting the international rule-based order.
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