Justin Trudeau was on the receiving end of nonstop media attention last week. There was a slew of difficult meetings, stilted photo-ops and tense handshakes with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G20 summit in New Delhi. He was either being excluded from many discussions, or pulling himself out of them.
Trudeau also pushed for a rule-of-law agenda that would have had stronger language. He condemned Vladimir Putin and Russia for its ‘illegal invasion of Ukraine’, and then used language that was seemingly directed at Modi and India. ‘Diaspora Canadians make up a huge proportion of our country’, he told world leaders in attendance, ‘and they should be able to express themselves and make their choices without interference from any of the many countries that we know are involved in interference challenges.’
What on earth was going on?
Trudeau’s public image had been badly tarnished in India after he and his family wore traditional outfits during a February 2018 trip.
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