Biden Praises Partnership, Friendship Between US and Canada in Parliament Address

OTTAWA, Canada—Emphasizing the importance of the U.S.-Canada partnership, President Joe Biden addressed Canadian Parliament on March 24 after bilateral meetings with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The two leaders met in Ottawa days after Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin gathered in Moscow where they proclaimed their partnership would help shape a new world order guided by China and Russia.
Biden noted that this is his first visit to Canada as president and that Trudeau was his first meeting with a foreign leader as president, one month after he took office.
“Today, our destinies are intertwined. They’re inseparable, not because of the inevitability of geography. But because it’s a choice,” Biden said. “The United States chooses to link our future with Canada because we know that we will find no better partner.”…}