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President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are holding a property league pursuing their bilateral gathering Friday greeting successful Ottawa, Canada.
Before the property conference, the 2 leaders individually addressed Canada's Parliament, stressing the beardown bonds betwixt the 2 countries amid respective planetary threats.
"Americans and Canadians are 2 people, 2 countries, successful my view, sharing 1 heart," Biden said. "It's a idiosyncratic connection: No 2 nations connected Earth are bound by specified adjacent ties — friendship, family, commerce and cultures."
Trudeau excessively emphasized the beardown ties betwixt the 2 nations, quoting erstwhile President Ronald Reagan who said successful a 1987 code to the Canadian Parliament that the U.S.-Canada borderline is "a gathering spot alternatively than a dividing line."
"More than 30 years later, our borderline is nary longer conscionable the spot wherever we conscionable each other," Trudeau said. "This is the spot wherever we volition conscionable the moment; it's the spot wherever we volition conscionable the future."
Concerns implicit China and Russia are apical of caput for the president arsenic helium makes his visit. The White House wants Canada to put much wealth into the NORAD early-warning system, which the medication feels is imperative pursuing the Chinese spy balloon incidental earlier this year.
The Biden medication is besides looking for its Canadian allies to instrumentality a greater relation successful helping to stabilize Haiti arsenic pack unit rises. Trudeau conversely is seeking much assistance stagnating the travel of migrants entering from the U.S.
In his speech, Biden announced the instauration of a caller planetary conjugation led by the United States and Canada to code the opioid epidemic, peculiarly the emergence of fentanyl deaths.
Biden and Trudeau met Friday greeting successful Ottawa, days aft Chinese President Xi Jinping traveled to Moscow to conscionable with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The 2 autocratic leaders said their concern would assistance bring astir a caller satellite order led by China and Russia.
Biden and Trudeau are seeking to amusement the spot of their enslaved and those of antiauthoritarian nations. Both leaders stressed their unwavering committedness to Ukraine amid Russia's penetration and to the NATO alliance.
