TORONTO, ONT – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will deal with the Canadian Parliament on Friday as he continues his efforts to shore up support from Western allies for Ukraine’s war towards the Russian invasion.
Zelenskyy used to be scheduled to arrive at Ottawa’s airport past due Thursday after assembly with U.S. President Joe Biden and lawmakers in Washington, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s place of job mentioned.
Trudeau deliberate to greet Zelenskyy and likewise to talk in Parliament in Ottawa on Friday.
It is Zelenskyy’s first consult with to Canada since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. He in the past addressed the Canadian Parliament just about after the war started.
Zelenskyy and Trudeau are scheduled to pass from Ottawa to Toronto to meet with the native Ukrainian neighborhood. Canada is house to about 1.4 million other people of Ukrainian descent, shut to 4% of the inhabitants.
The Ukrainian president is making the travel after stops on the United Nations and the White House.
Canada’s U.N. ambassador, Bob Rae, mentioned it is vital for Zelenskyy to see the level to which Canada helps Ukraine within the war.
“We have done a lot to help him and we need to do more,” Rae mentioned. “We’re going to proceed to do the whole thing we will to support the Ukrainian other people.”
Canada has provided more than $8.9 billion Canadian (US$6.6 billion) in support to Ukraine in what Trudeau’s government calls the highest per-capita direct financial support to Ukraine in the Group of 7 industrial nations.
More than 175,000 Ukrainians have come to Canada since the war started and n additional 700,000 have received approval to come as part of an initiative that supports temporary relocation of those fleeing the war. The initiative allows for an open work permit for three years with pathways to permeant residency and citizenship.
Zelenskyy is facing questions in Washington about the flow of American dollars that for 19 months has helped keep his troops in the fight against Russian forces.
Ukrainian troops are struggling to take back territory that Russia gained over the past year. Their progress in the next month or so before the rains come and the ground turns to mud could be critical in rousing additional global support over the winter.
Zelenskyy made his first respectable consult with to Canada in 2019.
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