OTTAWA — Leo Varadkar, Ireland's taoiseach, or prime minister, will join Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Montreal's Pride parade during a three-day visit that gets underway Saturday.
The two leaders met in Ireland in July, shortly after Varadkar took office as the country's first openly gay prime minister.
Trudeau says he and Varadkar plan to discuss issues related to diversity and inclusion and how both countries can benefit from the Canada-Europe Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, which goes into effect next month.
Trudeau's office says the Sunday event will mark the first time a foreign leader has joined the prime minister in a Canadian Pride parade.
![](https://media.darpanmagazine.com/library/uploads/news/content/leo-varadkar2@#</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
the prime minister stresses the close ties between the two countries, saying over 4.5 million canadians claimed irish ancestry in 2011.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
he also says the two-way economic links are strong.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
"our two countries enjoy strong family ties, common values, and a shared history," trudeau said in a statement. "now we are collaborating again to ensure that ceta creates good, well-paying middle class jobs on both sides of the atlantic."</div>
<div>
</div>
<blockquote class=)
i’m pleased to announce that irish taoiseach leo varadkar will visit canada later this week: https://t.co/myqhyhm0xe
— justin trudeau (@justintrudeau) august 15, 2017 .jpg" alt="" style="max-width:640px;" />MORE National ARTICLES
Tight B.C. Election Puts Vote Splitting On Agenda In Campaign's Final Days
NANAIMO, B.C. — British Columbia's political party leaders have been frantically crisscrossing the province, making their final appeals to voters who might still be swayed before casting their ballots Tuesday.
Tight B.C. Election Puts Vote Splitting On Agenda In Campaign's Final Days
28-Yr-Old Rohtak Woman Gets 7-year Jail For False Gangrape Complaint
The woman, Meenakshi, 28, had in June 2010 filed a complaint alleging she was gangraped by a Rohtak resident and his two brother-in-laws after they gave her lift in their car.
28-Yr-Old Rohtak Woman Gets 7-year Jail For False Gangrape Complaint
Search On For B.C. Fire Chief Who May Have Been Swept Away In Swollen Creek
CACHE CREEK, B.C. — The RCMP says the fire chief of Cache Creek in British Columbia's Interior is missing and may have been swept away in a swollen creek.
Search On For B.C. Fire Chief Who May Have Been Swept Away In Swollen Creek
17-Year-Old Youth Injured In Multi-Vehicle Collision In Surrey Dies
Police say he was one of three people hurt in two separate collisions on 64th Avenue on Wednesday night.
17-Year-Old Youth Injured In Multi-Vehicle Collision In Surrey Dies
Surrey Drug Bust Results In 13 Arrests, Seizure Of Handguns And Crossbows
Surrey RCMP advises that multiple search warrants were executed in mid-April at properties alleged to be involved in the street level drug trade.
Surrey Drug Bust Results In 13 Arrests, Seizure Of Handguns And Crossbows
British Columbia Court Says Invermere Mayor Gerry Taft Must Pay $75,000 For Defamation
Justice Gary Weatherill ruled Gerry Taft defamed Devin Kazakoff when he called him a convicted felon who had extreme positions on animal rights issues on a website based in Cranbrook, B.C.