Planned meetings between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, premiers and Indigenous leaders have been postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, the PMO has confirmed that the prime minister and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, are self-isolating after she started exhibiting symptoms of the COVID-19 virus.
“Having recently returned from a speaking engagement in London, U.K., the Prime Minister’s wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau began exhibiting mild flu-like symptoms including a low fever late last night,” says a PMO press release.
“She is self-isolating at home awaiting test results, and her symptoms have since subsided.”
The agenda of the now-cancelled First Ministers Meeting was to focus on economic issues, including the impact of tumbling oil prices on the national economy, the pressing need for critical infrastructure and the impact of COVID-19.
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This report was published by Kathleen Harris with CBC News on March 12, 2020
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