Newly elected U.S. president Barack Obama will visit Canada for his first foreign visit after his inauguration later this month. "We're honoured and thrilled he has chosen Canada," Peter Kent, Canada's minister of state for foreign affairs of the Americas, said. This trip will continue a longstanding tradition of new American presidents going to Canada for their first official state visit. The tradition was broken by President George Bush after his election when he went to Mexico instead.
I think that it is great that Barack Obama has decided to continue this tradition of newly elected U.S. presidents visiting Canada first. I think it shows how important Canada is to the U.S. as a trading partner.
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