Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump Try to Bridge Some Gaps While Avoiding Others<br />WASHINGTON — Despite sharp differences on immigration, refugees, trade<br />and climate change, President Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada struck a cordial tone on Monday in their first meeting, alternating between attempting to bridge those gaps and steering clear of them.<br />Wonderful meeting with Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau and a group of leading CEO’s & business women from Canadaand the United States pic.twitter.com/Rxr31QpxMK The two leaders also met on Monday with several women who are chief executives of companies from both countries to announce<br />that Canada and the United States would set up a cross-border council to advance women into executive roles, and to encourage entrepreneurship.<br />13, 2017<br />President Trump and Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, spoke about trade and immigration during a news conference on Monday.<br />Mr. Trudeau presented the president with a framed photograph taken in the 1980s, showing Mr. Trump speaking at the head of a table<br />of people including Pierre Elliott Trudeau, a former Liberal prime minister of Canada and the current prime minister’s father.<br />President-elect Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada will need<br />to work together despite vast differences on climate change, trade and migrants.<br />Freeland said that The combination of Canada being smaller<br />and the United States being bigger and the relationship largely being trouble-free means a lot of Americans don’t spend a lot of time thinking about Canada,
