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Politics This Morning: Trudeau huddles with defence bigwigs to talk Iraq, as Champagne doubles down on de-escalation talk

Plus, Gov. Gen. Julie Payette welcomes Speakers and other parliamentary presiding officers from across the Commonwealth as they converge in Ottawa for a four-day conference.

National Defence deputy minister Jody Thomas, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jonathan Vance, National Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Monday morning to talk about the ongoing situation in Iraq following the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani last week.Twitter photograph by Adam Scotti

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BY CHARELLE EVELYN

January 7, 2020

Good Tuesday morning, As the fate of the Canadian-led NATO mission in Iraq remains in up in the air, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent his first day back on the job in Ottawa in a huddle with the country’s military leaders. According to his

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