G20 Summit will be held on June 28 in Osaka, Japan

Toronto : The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that he will travel to Osaka, Japan, to attend the G20 Leaders’ Summit on June 28 and 29.

The Summit is a key opportunity to take concerted action on some of the world’s most pressing challenges, including making sure more people benefit from the increasingly global and digital economy.

Japan has put forward a G20 agenda with many themes similar to those of Canada’s 2018 G7 Presidency, including combatting climate change, promoting clean energy, and advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment.

At the Summit, the Prime Minister will continue to champion these issues, and underscore how creating new opportunities for the middle class is the best way to restore people’s confidence in the future.

In addition, he will promote open trade and investment, call for stronger and more decisive action to combat violent extremism in all its forms, including online, and underline how countries, as part of their efforts to fight climate change, must make a clean economy affordable for everyone.

Finally, he will stress the urgent need for G20 countries to uphold the rules-based international order, and to recognize the threat of those who seek to undermine this order.