OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to France next month for the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Trudeau will spend two days in France to attend D-day events including a Canadian ceremony at Juno Beach on the morning of June 6, marking exactly 80 years since 14,000 Canadians stormed the beach as part of a massive Allied forces operation.On June 5 a memorial will take place at the Bény-sur-Mer Canadian war cemetery where 2,049 Canadian soldiers are buried.
But it came at a heavy cost, with 381 Canadians killed on the first day of the invasion and more than 5,000 by the time the Battle of Normandy concluded three months later. He has used many speeches in recent months to talk about growing threats to that rules-based order around the world. Russian President Vladimir Putin, for whom the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for war crimes, was not invited.
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