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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S
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13 September 1983
GOVERNMENT
COPY NO.
PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
25-30 SEPTEMBER 1983
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GENERAL BRIEF: CANADA
Brief by Foreign & Commonwealth Office
INTRODUCTION
She will
1. The Prime Minister will be in Canada for three days.
She will spend most of 26 September in Ottawa.
meet Prime Minister Trudeau for 45 minutes tête à tête
discussion followed by a further hour or so with other
Canadian Ministers present and a working lunch. In the
afternoon the Prime Minister will address the Canadian
Parliament and meet briefly hear the Leader of the
Opposition, Mr Brian Mulroney. She then flies to Toronto
for a dinner given by Mr Trudeau.
2. The Prime Minister's programme in Toronto on 27
September includes a breakfast meeting with the Ontario
Premier, Mr Davis, a major speech on economic and
commercial themes to the combined Empire and Canadian
Clubs and separate meetings with British and Canadian
businessmen. In the afternoon she flies to Edmonton for
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