This weekend, Canada will play host to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who is widely regarded as that country’s most right-wing leader since the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. But don’t expect that detail to come up.
Meloni will be in Toronto this Saturday for a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and it is expected to be a cordial one. Meloni, reads a news release from the Prime Minister’s Office, enjoys a “close relationship” with Canada. She’s a “steadfast” ally, it says, in “defending democracy.”
The statement is a far cry from the public criticism Trudeau lobbed at Meloni at a meeting
