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Trudeau mum over Biden’s move to exclude ‘less like-minded’ countries from summit
Justin Trudeau isn’t saying whether he supports President Joe Biden’s decision to exclude Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba from this week’s Summit of the Americas.Trudeau acknowledges that some of the countries in the Western Hemisphere are “less like-minded” than others.But he says they all share a number of urgent issues, such as migration pressures, climate change and recovering fully from the COVID-19 pandemic. Trudeau says world leaders should ‘keep up with changes’ as Chile undergoes mining reform All three are expected to be on the agenda at the weeklong summit as the prime minister departs for Los Angeles later Tuesday.On the way, he and Defence Minister Anita Anand are stopping in Colorado Springs, Colo., for meetings with commanders and officials from NORAD, the joint-command continental defence system slated for upgrade.Also accompanying Trudeau are Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, who is scheduled to meet with U.S.