“Canada is an opening and welcoming society, but let me be clear. We are also a country of laws.”

— Justin Trudeau

Remarks after a meeting in Montreal with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, as reported in "'A Country of Laws': Canada's Trudeau Sounds Alarm About Illegal Immigrants" http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/21/canadian-prime-minister-trudeau-sounds-alarm-about-illegal-immigrants, Fox News Insider (21 August 2017)

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23rd Prime Minister of Canada; eldest son of Pierre Trudeau 1971

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