Germany’s president is visiting the Lower Mainland Tuesday, on the third day of his four-day journey to Canada.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier is slated to take a tour of the Burnaby gasoline cell firm Cellcentric earlier than going to Vancouver for a roundtable dialogue with German and Canadian business representatives.
He will later be greeted by Premier David Eby, will tour Vancouver Harbour by boat and go to the University of B.C.’s Smart Hydrogen Energy District – a soon-to-open hydrogen fueling station.
Steinmeier was in Ottawa on Monday when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced a German aircraft airlifted 58 Canadians out of Sudan as a battle escalated within the nation’s capital.
At a reception in Ottawa, Steinmeier stated rising international autocratic rule is placing inclusion and the rule of legislation in danger, and democracies should safe and defend these values in opposition to assault.
Steinmeier will journey north to Yellowknife and Tuktoyaktuk on Wednesday for occasions, together with conferences with authorities officers and a tour of the Canadian Armed Forces’ Joint Operations Centre within the North.
