PRIME Minister Justin Trudeau will be receiving an honour that former prime minister Stephen Harper never got – a state dinner at the White House hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama on March 10.
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Monday’s announcement that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet U.S. President Barack Obama on March 10 marks the first time a Canadian leader has been accorded a White House state dinner since then-prime minister Jean Chretien met then-president Bill Clinton 19 years ago.
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Trudeau also disagreed with Obama’s decision to scrap the controversial pipeline project, a choice made just days after Trudeau took office in November.
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Still, the 43-year-old Canadian leader has said he is looking forward to a “fresh start” with Obama, and there are signs of a budding partnership between the two.
Trudeau will attend the state dinner with his wife, Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau.
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Canada’s economic importance to the United States is significant: it ranks as America’s largest trading partner, with more than $2 billion a day in goods and services; its third largest foreign investor; and its single biggest foreign energy supplier.
