Canada has persuaded the Trump administration to consider backing a climate change-related initiative when it hosts the G-7 summit next year.
The June gathering of G-7 leaders at a resort in Quebec's Charlevoix region will mark U.S. President Donald Trump's first trip to Canada. Trump has shown disdain for international multilateral groups, disparaging alliances such as NATO, pulling the United States out of the Paris climate change agreement and tearing up trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
But The Canadian Press has learned Trump wants the Charlevoix summit to succeed.
Peter Boehm, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's deputy minister for the summit, says Trump looks forward to coming.
Trudeau formally launched Canada's G-7 presidency yesterday with a live Facebook event and said Canada will make preservation of the world's oceans a major agenda item.
The Trump administration has given the green light to developing the theme in pre-summit meetings early next year.