Harris, Trudeau discuss trade policy in her 1st foreign leader call

Kamala Harris.
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Vice President Kamala Harris spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday, in her first phone call with a foreign leader since the inauguration.

Harris and Trudeau discussed trade policies and China's arrest of Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. At the U.S.'s request, Canada arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in 2018, with the U.S. wanting to extradite her on fraud charges. Beijing appears to have retaliated with the detention of Kovrig and Spavor, and a readout from the White House shows that Harris promised Trudeau the U.S. will do "everything it can" to secure their release.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.