{"id":65785,"date":"2015-11-26T19:18:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T01:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=65785"},"modified":"2015-11-26T19:18:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T01:18:18","slug":"prime-minister-justin-trudeau-in-malta-for-commonwealth-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/26\/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-in-malta-for-commonwealth-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Malta for Commonwealth summit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Prime Minister Joseph Muscat of Malta
(Photo from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s official Twitter account<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VALLETTA, Malta\u2014Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has arrived in Malta for the second leg of his three-stop, European conference tour.<\/p>\n

Trudeau meets this evening with Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat before the full Commonwealth heads-of-government summit begins Friday.<\/p>\n

Malta, an island republic of less than half a million citizens in the Mediterranean Sea, is an historic migratory crossroad between North Africa and Italy.<\/p>\n

The current refugee crisis in the Middle East is literally lapping at its shores.<\/p>\n

Trudeau will be discussing Canada’s role in fighting Islamic terrorism as well as climate change and matters of Commonwealth governance during his three-day stay.<\/p>\n

From Malta, Trudeau is to move on to Paris for a UN climate change conference before returning to Canada and the opening of Parliament next week.<\/p>\n

French President Francois Hollande is expected to attend the Commonwealth meeting on Friday to brief the organization on the Paris climate negotiations.<\/p>\n

Trudeau departed London today as British Prime Minister David Cameron was making the case in Parliament for an expanded air war over Syrian territory.<\/p>\n

Cameron told the British House of Commons that you can’t \u201csub-contract\u201d national security.<\/p>\n

His efforts to widen the British air war come as Trudeau is vowing to withdraw Canada’s six CF-18 jets from the American-led bombing mission in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n

France has also upped its air war since the deadly terror attacks in Paris two weeks ago that claimed at least 130 lives.<\/p>\n

A senior Trudeau adviser, briefing reporters on the flight to Malta under agreement not to be named, said Cameron did not pressure Trudeau to reconsider his CF-18 decision when the two prime ministers met in London on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

In fact, the adviser said not a single world leader has questioned Canada’s pending withdrawal from the air war during the last two weeks of intense international summitry.<\/p>\n

Trudeau has made it clear Canada is not leaving the military coalition fighting Islamic militants and will expand its military training role, a move his officials say has been accepted abroad without complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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