(Canadian Press) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free expression in a call with the president of France on Thursday, his office says.
The conversation with France’s Emmanuel Macron came one week after three people were killed in a deadly knife assault in the Mediterranean city of Nice.
The incident was the third gruesome attack in five weeks that French authorities have attributed to Muslim extremists, amid a growing furor over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that were republished by the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Trudeau “expressed Canada’s solidarity with the people of France following recent terrorist attacks and violence” and “agreed on the importance of defending freedom of expression and human rights and on their shared commitment to fighting terrorism and violent extremism,” according to an official account of the call from the Prime Minister’s Office.
