{"id":70096,"date":"2017-02-09T17:39:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T17:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/justin-trudeau-and-donald-trump-to-meet-monday-in-washington.html"},"modified":"2017-02-09T17:39:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T17:39:40","slug":"justin-trudeau-and-donald-trump-to-meet-monday-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/justin-trudeau-and-donald-trump-to-meet-monday-in-washington.html","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump to meet Monday in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet in person for the first time on Monday in Washington, D.C., the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement emailed to\u00a0the Parliamentary Press Gallery, Kate Purchase, Trudeau&#8217;s\u00a0director of communications, said that the leaders &#8220;look forward to discussing \u200ethe unique relationship between Canada and the United States of America and how we can continue to work hard for middle class Canadians and Americans, together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the White House Thursday said Trump and Trudeau &#8220;look forward to a constructive conversation on strengthening the relationship between our two nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Three of Trudeau&#8217;s ministers\u00a0\u2014 Defence Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/liberals-defence-spending-1.3971400\">Harjit Sajjan<\/a>, Foreign Affairs Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/freeland-call-washington-wednesday-1.3972686\">Chrystia Freeland<\/a> and Finance Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/canada-trump-tax-plan-1.3973040\">Bill Morneau<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 have made trips to Washington this week to lay the groundwork for these\u00a0first face-to-face talks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/trudeau-ministers-to-washington-1.3973202\" id=\"topstory-headline-1.3973202\">Ministers set scene for Trudeau meeting with Trump<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/canada-ministers-washington-1.3972164\" id=\"morestory-headline-1.3972164\" title=\"Feb 08 \u2014 Canadian cabinet ministers are fanning throughout the U.S. capital this week to meet members of the new Trump administration, laying the groundwork for an anticipated visit by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as well as the upcoming renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.\">Ministers cycle through Washington ahead of talks<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet in person for the first time on Monday in Washington, D.C., the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office has confirmed. In a statement emailed to\u00a0the Parliamentary Press Gallery, Kate Purchase, Trudeau&#8217;s\u00a0director of communications, said that the leaders &#8220;look forward to discussing \u200ethe unique relationship between Canada and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-70096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}