Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is speaking with the European Union's two top political leaders today and they are expected to discuss their shared commitment to international co-operation and what that means ahead of Tuesday's U.S presidential election.
Today's three-way video conference between Trudeau, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Charles Michel, the European Union Council president, will mark the first formal discussion they have been able to hold since the changing of the guard of Europe's top political leadership late last year.
In a pandemic-free world, it would have been a formal summit, a followup to last summer's two-day affair that Trudeau hosted with one of Von der Leyen and Michel's predecessors, Donald Tusk.
That gathering was marked by gushing displays of Canada-EU political fealty that saw Trudeau and Tusk position themselves as defenders of a world order that has been increasingly under attack from U.S. President Donald Trump.
Now, in the COVID-19 world, Trudeau, Von der Leyen and Michel are poised to send the same signal.
A senior EU official in Brussels, who briefed The Canadian Press ahead of the talks on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said the talks would affirm strong support for the United Nations World Health Organization.
Trump has defunded and derided the WHO as a being a puppet of China because he says it downplayed the severity of the early outbreak of COVID-19.
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Trudeau had better check his map... the US Shares a 2000 mile land border with them and much of Canada's economy is directly linked with that of the USA. Pushing to hard on the US at this time may result in some very serious problems for Canada... we can shut down the border.
People the world over have no faith in governnment. How can we tell these "leaders" to get out of the way?
How do you spell LOSERS as their Countries are imploding because of their complete stupity!!! Throw the UN out of New York forever....
Shut that bitch UN down. Close the building and disband the UN. Canada has socialized medicine. It takes 3 months to get a doctor's appointment. Yay trudeau! Throw that wimp out of office!
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No, stay in the UN ... defund it, and use our veto power to shut down its legislative actions and programs... be a major thorn in its side every time it tries to push its socialist agenda veto it. Don't leave we lose our power to engage it, if we withdraw ... We isolate ourselves and that is not good. Stay in the UN and become seriously obstructive.
Both the WHO and United Nations are corrupt and we should send the UN back to Europe.
We need to be the trojan horse from within to destroy them. We have the power of a VETO and that is huge.
We could veto their sustainability schemes, their Child Rights schemes and every other work of darkness. Threaten them due to their child raping actions known around the world. Make them serve the underpriviledged, as they pretend to do.
No we need to act decisively to defund it and we must do that from within... using our veto power to kill its programs and finances. Remain in the UN in order to tear it own from within.