“It’s all the time better to have contact with the prime minister,” Didier Reynders said. A meeting between Trudeau and the royal couple would have been preferred, Belgium’s deputy prime minister said in an interview Tuesday. OTTAWA—High-ranking Belgian officials played down a perceived snub of the Belgian king and queen by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the royal couple carried on day two of their weeklong state visit to Canada. But that message was relayed before the prime minister planned his outreach tour of cities that could be impacted by tariffs. “Of course we’d prefer also to discuss with the prime minister,” said Reynders.

Source: thestar March 14, 2018 00:45 UTC