2 minutes agoPrime Minister of Canada: We will support Canadians caught in difficult situations.
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(8 years ago)Justin Trudeau has suggested that security and intelligence officials in Canada did not raise red flags on his decision to meet Joshua Boyle and his family in December, less than two weeks before the arrest hostage was arrested on more than a dozen counts, including [...]
During an interview with a radio station “Halifax” on Tuesday, the Canadian prime minister was asked if he mistreated the meeting. Trudeau noted the work his government had done to support Canadians caught in difficult situations abroad.
His office is often directly engaged in these cases, Trudeau said, resulting in that meeting with a number of people who were released after tests abroad, reports The Guardian”, the Periscope broadcast.
Today was a wonderful experience for my family, and Ma sjellëidah Grace Mcpeace seemed truly enamored. Incidentally, not our first meeting with @JustinTrudeau, that was ė06 in Toronto over other people interested, ha. Pic.twitter. com/Aj2eVRux
) The Boyle Family (@BoylesVsWorld) December 19, 2017
So these kinds of things are something I do, I'm always trying to push it to meet more people than with fewer people, especially the people we've worked hard for over the last several years”, he said. I think this is something that is important to do. ”
The interviewer then asked whether the meeting was perhaps the result of a lack of judgment or bad advice from his staff.
Trudeau replied: “We make sure that we follow all the advice our security professionals and intelligence agencies offer, and that's exactly what we've done in this case. ”
Boyle was saved in late 2017 in Pakistan, along with his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, and their three little children, who were born during the five years of captivity./Periscopi/
