Prime Minister Justin Trudeau landed in the U.K. Thursday under grey skies ahead of a three-day summit with fellow G7 leaders. In tonight's newscast, glen_mcgregor takes a look at some of the key issues that will be a focus for Trudeau.
As Trudeau arrived under grey skies, greeted by a mask-wearing ceremonial guard and local officials, President Joe Biden separately announced the U.S. will donate 500 million doses to speed the end of the global pandemic and said his G7 counterparts will soon announce their own plans."We're going to help lead the world out of this pandemic working alongside our global partners," Biden said in England, adding the doses would be shared with "no strings attached.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has asked leaders to come to the summit with concrete commitments on how to end the pandemic by the end of 2022. Trudeau will spend the next few days meeting with world leaders in a village near the English coast for the first in-person gathering of G7 leaders since 2019. From there he will travel to Brussels for a NATO summit, followed by a meeting between Canada and the European Union.
New York Rep. Brian Higgins said Thursday the White House has confirmed Biden and Trudeau are set to meet on the margins of the G7 summit, and that they will discuss plans to reopen the Canada-U.S. border. Higgins, one of the most vocal U.S. critics of the ongoing border restrictions, was taking part in a panel discussion on the issue alongside Liberal MP Wayne Easter.
Trudeau travels having received one of his two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot. His office said he will quarantine for up to three days at a hotel in Ottawa when he returns next week. Heading into the G7, Trudeau's office said besides the pandemic, he will focus on climate change -- a major policy plank for his Liberal government -- as well as economic growth and co-ordinating approaches to promote gender equality and human rights.
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