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Obama’s first foreign visit to be Canada

by investor on 11/01/09 at 2:52 pm

Barack Obama will make his first foreign trip as president of the United States to Canada – restoring a long-standing tradition abandoned eight years ago by George W. Bush.

Officials in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office confirmed Obama has accepted an offer to visit Canada “soon” after his Jan. 20 inauguration as America’s 44th president.

“We have been in close contact with president-elect Obama’s transition team,” said Dimitri Soudas, a spokesman for the prime minister’s office.

“We can confirm that the president-elect has accepted the prime minister’s invitation to visit Canada soon after he is inaugurated. This will be president Obama’s first foreign visit.”

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