PM Trudeau was in Florida!

This was an interesting path that predated the trip. 

Accounts are interesting!

Trump can't come to Canada, as he is a convicted felon. PM Trudeau had to go there.
 

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— Justin Ling (@justinling.ca) November 30, 2024 at 11:50 AM

🇺🇦 Ajuinnata, Canada! Ajuinnata, Ukraine!🇨🇦 ❤️

President Zelenskyy visited Canada, where he and his wife, Olena Zelenska, were shown much love and support. Not only that, but many Ukrainians live in Canada. Some have citizenship, others are here until the war is over, in safety. He was warmly welcomed by our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, and our Deputy Minister, Christia Freeland, is fluent in Ukrainian. Many traveled kilometres to witness this.

Media interviewed one young lady after the reception, an immigrant from Ukraine, who said she and her mother attended a stand up night where President Zelenskyy performed a routine, well before he was president. She approached the stage and gave him some flowers. She was just about in tears, with joy.

In my today’s address to the Parliament of Canada I emphasized that what Russian occupiers are doing to Ukraine is genocide. And when we want to win, when we call on the world to support us, it’s not just about an ordinary conflict. It’s about saving lives of millions of people. pic.twitter.com/lWzl8YIDf9

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) September 22, 2023

Today, Olena @ZelenskaUA and I had the honor to meet with Governor General Mary Simon. She taught me a word in her mother tongue, “Ajuinnata”. She said it meant “don’t give up; stay strong against all odds”. So shall it be.

Ajuinnata, Canada! Ajuinnata, Ukraine!

Слава Україні!

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) September 22, 2023

 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini !🇨🇦 ❤️

It was a moving moment when, at our meeting in Toronto, we all started singing the Ukrainian national anthem. I am so proud that Ukraine inspires, that Ukrainians inspire, and so do Canadian Ukrainians. I thank each and every one of them.

Victory will be ours.

🇺🇦🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/4duqWNy4Ue

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) September 23, 2023

P.S. I never thought to post that information, Barb. Our GG is Inuk! She is the first Indigenous person to hold the office.  Some people were ticked off that she couldn't speak French, only English, and taught Inuit at university.

Congratulations to our new Prime Minister-designate!

Then PM Trudeau, and his sons – 1981
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Whew, glad that one is over! Look out world, Canada is back! We'll be at the 2015 Summits:
UN Environmental Summit COP 21, Paris; Asia-Pacific Summit (APEC),  Commonwealth Meeting, Malta; G20 Summit, Turkey.

Mr. Trudeau will be sworn in Nov. 4th. A vicious campaign from some, and I'm glad it is over. I have had to 'unfriend' two male acquaintances on Facebook, due to their vitriolic, and vicious hate campaigns against our former PM Harper. It was above and beyond sane. Let's be positive and move into the future.

One journalist of long experience mentioned that a friend in Europe sent him a message, "Welcome back, Canada!"

I have a story about our new PM!

I was a mom of a two-year-old, had just moved to Nepean with my first husband. Caitlin was in day care, which she loved. I would take the bus to uOttawa for my B.Ed. studies. I was a student teacher in 1981. We didn't have any money. Our family had been moved to Ottawa, by Canada Post, for a promotion, I'd just finished
my B.A. in ECE at Ryerson. ECE work in day care didn't pay well. Mortgage rates were 20+% and our mortgage was coming due. My mother-in-law paid for my tuition.

Trudeau sons,  & PM 1979

 I was doing a practicum placement, a stint at the MacSkimming Outdoor Science school. I loved it. We would have to be downtown on OCTranspo for 6:30 a.m., then a school bus would take us student teachers out to the school, east of Ottawa. We were banding birds, doing bird and forest studies, and lots of other activities. I'd be up till midnight preparing lesson plans.

We had heard that Justin Trudeau, son of the current Prime Minister, would be there at MacSkimming. It was, of course, business as usual, however. I had a group of kids, including Jus
tin and their parent volunteers, in the forest. We were doing a tree study: first learning the various trees in the forest, and then doing a scientific study of those we found as we walked 100m in one direction. I set them into smaller groups and sent them off into the forest. Little did I realize that the 'parents' I was sending out were RCMP officers (a man and woman, as I recall) who were charged with guarding the PM's son, Justin. I was so young!

Trudeau press conference 

Justin Trudeau's First News Conference as Prime Minister-Designate

Following his election win the previous day, Liberal Party of Canada Leader Justin Trudeau gives a…

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