Global News published this video item, entitled “Trudeau travels to England for G7 summit, first foreign trip since pandemic began” – below is their description.
As leaders of the G7 nations meet in England, questions are being raised about whether gathering during a pandemic is a good idea.
It’s the first time the current group of leaders from those seven democracies will meet in person, and the Canadian leader’s first trip abroad since March 2020.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is already facing criticism about the quarantining plan for him and his delegation once they return to Canada.
Abigail Bimman is travelling with Trudeau, and reports from the town of Falmouth, England.
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Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
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Justin Pierre James Trudeau PC MP is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada since November 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since April 2013.