It's been a long-standing tradition that a new President's first foreign trip is to its neighbour to the North. Shrub was the first President to break that tradition and instead visited Mexico. Obama & Harper confirmed that his first foreign visit will be to Canada....oh I hope it's Toronto!
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"U.S. president-elect Barack Obama plans to travel to Canada for his first international trip after he takes office, the Prime Minister's Office confirmed Saturday.
"We have been in close contact with president-elect Obama's transition team. We can confirm that the president-elect has accepted the prime minister's invitation to visit Canada soon after he is inaugurated," a statement released by Stephen Harper's office said.
U.S. transition aides also said Obama picked his country's northern neighbour as his first venture outside the United States as president, but they added they could not discuss the date for the trip, nor its agenda."Link:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/01/10/obama-canada.html
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