U.S. President Joe Biden is planning to host an in-person meeting with the leaders of Mexico and Canada on Nov. 18, the first of its kind in more than five years, a source in Ottawa said on Tuesday.
Three other people familiar with the matter had said final details were still being worked out but if the meeting goes ahead it would most likely be some time next week in Washington.Biden has held virtual meetings with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since taking office this year, and attended the G20 in Rome with Trudeau. The in-person summit coincides with policy tensions over immigration, energy and trade.to invest more to stem it.
As well as immigration, the agenda will cover fighting COVID-19 and competitiveness, the Ottawa source said. The leaders of the three countries started holding what is informally known as the Three Amigos summit in 2005 and met most yearsThe countries are bound together by the United States-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement thatTrudeau welcomed Biden's election win a year ago but since then a series of old trade disputes over lumber, pipelines and procurement have flared up.
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