Justin Trudeau meets with Barbados leader as Summit of the Americas begins
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Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau will cross paths later on Wednesday, when the president hosts all of the delegations at the official opening ceremony.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are charting markedly different paths Wednesday at the Summit of the Americas.
Before his leader-level meetings get underway, Biden is sitting down to tape an appearance with talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel.
Trudeau, who arrived in Los Angeles late Tuesday, is getting down to work on environmental priorities with Barbados counterpart Mia Mottley.
Later, the prime minister will attend a roundtable meeting with Latin American and Caribbean leaders to discuss climate change, defending democratic values and promoting gender equality.
He’ll also talk with Shilpan Amin, the president of General Motors International, about electric vehicles, the hemisphere’s climate goals and the effort to energize economic growth.
Biden and Trudeau will cross paths later in the day, when the president hosts all of the delegations at the official opening ceremony.
The meetings mark a whipsaw pivot for Trudeau, who spent Tuesday afternoon in the rarified air of the Rocky Mountains for meetings with military officials in Colorado.
He and Defence Minister Anita Anand toured the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, the fortified command centre that houses part of Norad, the joint-command continental defence system.