Trudeau meets Italian PM in Toronto, discusses collaboration plans | 24CA News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met along with his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni in Toronto on Saturday, the place the pair stated they agreed to determine the Canada-Italy Roadmap for Enhanced Cooperation.
The two prime ministers issued a joint assertion saying the settlement will additional deepen their nations’ political, financial and strategic ties by setting out plans to collaborate over the following three to 5 years in precedence areas.
Those embrace power safety and the shift to a sustainable power future, local weather change and biodiversity, migration, sustainable financial development, and analysis and innovation, together with synthetic intelligence.
The two G-7 members plan to overview progress on the event of the roadmap at a gathering this June in Italy.
Speaking in entrance of reporters earlier than heading behind closed doorways, Trudeau recommended Meloni’s management as Italy presides over this 12 months’s G7 summit, including he’s wanting ahead to working together with her to arrange Canada’s time period as host in 2025.
Trudeau says Canada and Italy are “aligned on so many things” and have a “very deep and growing economic relationship.”
The two acquired right into a public spat final 12 months after Trudeau criticized Italy’s stance on LGBTQ2S+ points in a gathering with Meloni on the G7 leaders’ summit. He was reacting to her authorities’s transfer to restrict the popularity of parental rights to solely the organic mother or father in households with same-sex dad and mom.
Meloni later rejected the criticism and stated Trudeau had fallen sufferer to pretend news.
On Saturday, Meloni touted plenty of her priorities main the G7, together with synthetic intelligence, the function of the Indo-Pacific and respecting the worldwide rule-based order.
She additionally highlighted assist for Ukraine and “this very difficult Middle East crisis,” the place she stated it’s necessary to keep away from escalation.
“We are beginning a new year of our relationship trying to enhance our cooperation and I think there are many, many topics on which we can do that,” Meloni stated.
© 2024 The Canadian Press
