PM leaves for Canada
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka in the early hours of Friday for Toronto on a four-day
official visit to Canada to attend the outreach session of G7 Summit.
The prime minister is joining the outreach session of G7 Summit at the invitation of her Canadian counterpart Justine Trudeau.
After making a five-hour stopover in Dubai, an Emirates flight carrying the prime minister and her entourage members departed Dubai International Airport for Toronto at 3:30 am local time (5:30 am BST).
Bangladesh ambassador to the UAE Mohammad Imran saw the prime minister off at the airport.
The flight is scheduled to reach Pearson International Airport in Toronto at 9:30 am local time (7:30 pm Bangladesh time) on Friday.
Bangladesh consul general in Toronto Nayeem Uddin Ahmed and Canada’s International Relations director and protocol deputy chief Ontario Province Jonathan Sauve will receive the prime minister at the airport.
After a two-hour stopover in Toronto, the premier will fly to provincial city Quebec, the venue of the outreach session of G7 Summit.
Bangladesh high commissioner to Canada Mizanur Rahman and Federal and Provincial Dignitaries of Canada will receive the prime minister at Jean Lesage International Airport upon her arrival in Quebec.
In the evening, Sheikh Hasina will join a dinner to be hosted by governor general of Canada in honour of heads of state and government taking part in the G7 Summit and outreach programme.
The prime minister will join G7 Outreach Leaders Programme at Le Manoir Richelieu Hotel on Saturday.
She will hold a meeting with Justine Trudeau on Sunday morning at her place of residence at Hotel Chateau Frontenac.
From Quebec, Sheikh Hasina will return to Toronto on Sunday and exchange views with expatriate Bangladeshis at hotel Metro in the evening.
On Monday, she will hold a meeting with Special Envoy of Canada on Myanmar Bob Rae at her hotel the Ritz Carlton where she will be staying.
The premier will also have a meeting with deputy premier of Saskatchewan and trade and export development minister Gordon Wyant Q.C. and immigration and career training minister Saskatchewan Jeremy Harrison and
business leaders of Saskatchewan Province.
Before leaving Toronto, the prime minister will hold a meeting with president and CEO of Commercial Corporation of Canada (CCC) Martin Zablocki at her hotel.
The premier will return home on Tuesday night via Dubai.
Sheikh Hasina is joining the G7 Outreach Programme with 16 other world dignitaries beyond the Group of Seven (G7), a platform of world’s economic power houses.
The G7 is a group consisting of the world’s seven largest advanced economies - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Argentina president and the chair of the G20 Mauricio Macri, Haiti president and the chair of the Caribbean Community Jovenel Moise, Jamaica prime minister Andrew Holness, Kenya president Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Marshall Islands Hilda Heine, Norway prime minister Erna Solberg, Rwanda president and chair of the African Union Paul Kagame, Senegal president Macky Sall, Seychelles president Danny Faure, South
Africa president Cyril Ramaphosa, Vietnam prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, International Monetary Fund managing
director Christine Lagarde, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development secretary general Jose Angel Gurria, United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres and
World Bank chief executive officer Kristalina Georgieva will join the event.