Nenshi appears to approve of job PM did in Washington

Mayor Naheed Nenshi didn’t have really anything negative to say about the job Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did in Washington D.C. on Monday.

Trudeau traveled to the White House for his first face-to-face meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

“I know that certainly the statement that we’ve seen is pretty generic, which is not a terrible thing frankly in this day and age,” Nenshi said. “The prime minister had a tough job, because he really had to go down and talk about the important aspects of what we do in Canada that is different while being respectful to his host.

“I would argue that in a world where the trend is toward closed, closed arms, closed hearts, closed borders, closed minds, Canada needs to be unfashionable. We need to be open, open to ideas, and minds and investment from all around the world and I think this is really a point, an historical point, an historical opportunity for us and it’s not to be critical of other peoples points of view. It’s just to say we’re different and if that gives us the ability to attract investment and brains from around the world, I think that’s a good thing.”

Nenshi used an iPhone for example and told reporters if you’re trying to preserve manufacturing jobs, you have to do it in such a way where you don’t cripple your companies.

“I think for Canada, given that we have the Canadian European Trade Agreement coming on board, we’ll preserve our trade relationship with the United States,” he said. “If we have to, I think, we’ll form a bilateral relationship with Mexico, we’ll continue our relationships with Latin America and with Asia. It gives us a real opportunity to be a major trading post for the world and I think that’s solid economic strategy.”

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