Remembrance Day 2020: Justin Trudeau, wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau lay wreath at National War Memorial

Under a cover of grey clouds, federal officials and veterans commemorated the sacrifices of Canadian war dead and veterans, and marked the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War under tight restrictions aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus. Attired in masks and keeping socially distant, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, laid a wreath at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.

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