Appointing new ambassador to Canada not ‘necessarily urgent’ priority for Biden

'Don't expect a fresh face, someone who's going to be a whippersnapper, who comes out of nowhere and this is their first gig,' says Zain Velji, a former campaigner for then-U.S. president Barack Obama.

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, left, spoke to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, on Nov. 9 as part of his first outreach to a foreign leader. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PALAK MANGAT

November 11, 2020

Much of the “legwork” in restoring diplomatic relations between Canada and the U.S. will fall on U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, rather than on their respective ambassadors, says one strategist.

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