Trudeau meeting NATO, EU leaders as U.S. tariff threat continues – National [Video]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Brussels today as Canada works to deepen its trade and defence ties with Europe.

On the one-day trip, the prime minister was first scheduled to meet with NATO secretary-general Mark Rutte, and then the European Union’s two most senior leaders.

Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa welcomed Trudeau at the Europa building on Wednesday afternoon.

Von der Leyen said in her welcoming remarks the story of Canada and the European Union is the story of good allies and trusted friends, and “trust is very much needed in an unpredictable world.”

Trudeau said the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement has created “tremendous prosperity on both sides of the Atlantic.”

“It’s something we’re very much talking about doing even more of in a reliable and trustworthy way,” he said in his remarks to media.

Von der Leyen has been president of the European Commission since …