Canadian and International Politics - CPW4UThis course explores various perspectives on issues in Canadian and world politics. Students will explore political decision making and ways in which individuals, stakeholder groups, and various institutions, including governments, multinational corporations, and non-governmental organizations, respond to and work to address domestic and international issues. Students will apply the concepts of political thinking and the political inquiry process to investigate issues, events, and developments of national and international political importance, and to develop and communicate informed opinions about them.
WASHINGTON—U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the White House on Thursday with a pomp-filled ceremony and a bit of Canadianese. “About time, eh?” Obama said, noting that Trudeau was the first Canadian prime minister to be invited for a state visit in 19 years.
Obama later said at a joint news conference after an Oval Office meeting that he willaddress Parliament during an upcoming visit to Canada. The visit will be part of a so-called Three Amigos summit meeting to take place in June between Trudeau, Obama and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. But on the White House lawns, Obama emphasized the similarities between both the two countries and himself and Trudeau. The prime minister, he said, has brought a new energy to Canada and to the bilateral relationship. “We have a common outlook on the world,” Obama said. |