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Justin Trudeau makes stops in Sherbrooke and Granby as Canada tour continues

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau poses for a photo during a visit to a Tim Hortons in Hampton, N.B. on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau poses for a photo during a visit to a Tim Hortons in Hampton, N.B. on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s cross-country tour will remain in Quebec today, with stops in Sherbrooke and Granby.

Trudeau, however, will begin his day by holding a private meeting with Lac Megantic Mayor Jean-Guy Cloutier. The Quebec town was rocked by a huge train explosion in July 2013 that killed 47 people.

The prime minister will later visit a Tim Hortons at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke and meet with the media there before heading to a restaurant in Granby to chat with members of the public.

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Trudeau touched on a variety of issues Tuesday during his visits to Fredericton, N.B., and Sherbrooke.

In Fredericton, he said his government inherited a “high degree of mistrust” from the previous Conservative government that has left Canadians skeptical about consultations on pipelines and environmental protection.

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Trudeau said that’s why his government has “turned around and enhanced the process for pipeline approvals to make sure there’s more public input.

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At an earlier news conference, Trudeau affirmed Canada’s support of NATO, days after U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s called the military alliance obsolete, but stopped short of saying he would spend more so Canada could meet NATO’s spending target for its members.

Trudeau later told a town hall gathering in Sherbrooke that his government created a big “shock” to the immigration system on purpose in order to prove that accepting 25,000 Syrian refugees in a short time was possible.

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