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Trudeau absent from national Remembrance Day ceremony due to Cambodia summit

The national remembrance day ceremony in Ottawa today will see the absence of one important guest, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Senior officials said the prime minister left Thursday for Phnom Penh, Cambodia to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit.
The ASEAN summit is scheduled to start on Saturday and is the first of four international meetings that Trudeau will attend over 10 days.
He will also attend the G20 in Indonesia, the APEC meeting in Thailand and a Francophonie summit in Tunisia.
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The Royal Canadian Legion organizes and runs the national ceremony every year, and a spokeswoman for the legion, Nujma Bond says the prime minister and other key government representatives are always invited to attend.
“We are disappointed that he will not be present this year,” Bond said. “We do understand that, on occasion, national matters may arise that prevent him from attending.”
Spokeswoman Cecely Roy said the prime minister met with serving military personnel and veterans in New Brunswick earlier this week.
That included visiting the military base in Gagetown on Indigenous Veterans Day and paying his respects to those who fell in service at the Oromocto Pioneer Gardens Cemetery.
Lawrence MacAulay, the minister for veterans affairs, will represent the government at Friday’s Ottawa ceremony, Roy added.
The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that the summits will “advance our priorities” and Trudeau is attending alongside other world leaders, including from the United Kingdom, United States and France.
Trudeau was also absent for the national Remembrance Day ceremony in 2018 because he was attending an international gathering of world leaders in France marking the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.