Trudeau will mark 80th anniversary of D-day at Juno Beach ceremony in France

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will journey to France subsequent month for the eightieth anniversary of D-Day.

Trudeau will spend two days in France to attend D-day occasions together with a Canadian ceremony at Juno Beach on the morning of June 6, marking precisely 80 years since 14,000 Canadians stormed the seashore as a part of an enormous Allied forces operation.

An worldwide ceremony will likely be held later the identical day on Omaha Beach.

On June 5 a memorial will happen on the Bény-sur-Mer Canadian battle cemetery the place 2,049 Canadian troopers are buried.

D-day is taken into account to be the start of the top of the Second World War, finally resulting in the Allies liberating Western Europe from the Nazis lower than a yr later.

But it got here at a heavy price, with 381 Canadians killed on the primary day of the invasion and greater than 5,000 by the point the Battle of Normandy concluded three months later.

Trudeau is anticipated to make use of the ceremonies to focus on that the aftermath of the Second World War “led to the foundation of the modern rules-based international order” which Canada soundly defends.

He has used many speeches in current months to speak about rising threats to that rules-based order around the globe.

Canada has not but commented on the very fact French President Emmanuel Macron invited Russian officers to attend a few of the official D-Day occasions regardless of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, for whom the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for battle crimes, was not invited.

Trudeau has repeatedly mentioned Russia’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine is a risk to peace and stability around the globe.

The organizer of the D-Day commemorations in France, often called Mission Libération, mentioned in a press release in April that France had at all times invited international locations whose troops landed in Normandy, together with the Russian Federation.

Putin did obtain an invite and attend ceremonies to mark the sixtieth and seventieth anniversaries of D-day, the latter of which befell just some months after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine.

Trudeau attended ceremonies in France to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of D-day in 2019.