{"id":14967,"date":"2023-03-24T13:06:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T13:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=14967"},"modified":"2023-03-24T13:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T13:09:57","slug":"biden-arrives-in-canada-to-discuss-trade-migration-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/biden-arrives-in-canada-to-discuss-trade-migration-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden arrives in Canada to discuss trade, migration challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden arrived Thursday in Canada where he will meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and address parliament, with reports that a deal has been struck on managing undocumented migration across the neighbours\u2019 long border.<\/p>\n<p>Trade, Canada\u2019s anaemic defence spending, and a potential international force to stabilize troubled Haiti are expected to be on the agenda in the events set largely for Friday.<\/p>\n<p>As Biden flew north, there were reports that another hot-button issue in the otherwise smooth relationship had been resolved through a deal to clamp down on undocumented migration by asylum seekers passing through the United States into Canada.<\/p>\n<p>According to The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, Canada will be able to stop illegal migrants at the Roxham Road crossing point on the frontier between New York state and Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>The flow of migrants there has been a source of irritation in domestic Canadian politics, much as it is in Washington concerning illegal entries across the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">US President Joe Biden arrives in Canada to discuss war in Ukraine, climate crisis and migration on his first trip to the country since taking the office <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/koCQxdvMou\">pic.twitter.com\/koCQxdvMou<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TRTWorldNow\/status\/1639137465934962691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The reports said that Canada has agreed in return to take in some 15,000 asylum seekers from Latin America through legal channels, a move that will ease the pressure on the southern US border.<\/p>\n<p>But as Biden and his wife First Lady Jill Biden arrived at Trudeau\u2019s home Thursday evening for dinner, the president declined to answer a reporter\u2019s question on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>He then accompanied the prime minister and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau inside.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/biden-makes-unannounced-trip-to-kyiv-ahead-of-wars-anniversary.html\">Biden makes unannounced trip to Kyiv ahead of war&#8217;s anniversary<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre would not confirm the news but said \u201cwe will hear more about it from the president and the prime minister tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the visit, the two sides stressed their close integration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s going to be the theme of this visit, that we are there making each other stronger and better,\u201d Canada\u2019s ambassador to the United States, Kirsten Hillman, told CBC.<\/p>\n<p>But only modest, if any, progress is expected on tensions over Biden\u2019s Inflation Reduction Act \u2013 a massive program to subsidize and kick start US-based development of electric vehicles and other clean energy products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking for more inclusion in exactly those things,\u201d a senior Canadian government official told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want a North America that is globally competitive, so that our two economies which are already so integrated, where so many businesses and jobs and supply chains rely on each other, can compete with the world and can be successful together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Money for mutual defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another expected item on the agenda is the financing of the neighbours\u2019 mutual defence pacts, both as members of NATO and their joint air defence system for North America, named NORAD.<\/p>\n<p>The US government has been pressuring Canada to increase its defence spending, which in 2022 was just 1.33% of GDP. This is scheduled to rise to 1.59% from 2026 but that\u2019s still well below the NATO alliance requirement of a minimum two percent of GDP spending.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre praised Canada\u2019s contributions to the Western alliance helping Ukraine to fend off the Russian invasion but said regarding the budget, \u201cI\u2019m sure that conversation will come up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Thursday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Biden and Trudeau would discuss pleas from Haiti\u2019s leaders for an international force to bring order to the impoverished Caribbean nation, where the authorities are unable to subdue armed gangs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden arrived Thursday in Canada where he will meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and address parliament, with reports that a deal has been struck on managing undocumented migration across the neighbours\u2019 long border. 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