Trudeau Takes Pitch for UN Security Seat Council Directly to African Diplomats

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken Canada’s campaign for a seat on the United Nations Security Council directly to African diplomats.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responds to a question during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa, on Feb. 19, 2020. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken Canada’s campaign for a seat on the United Nations Security Council directly to African diplomats with a speech that tried to emphasize his boyhood connection to the continent.

Trudeau fondly recalled accompanying his father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, on trips to Africa as a child and later as a young adult backpacker.