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Soyi­ni Grey

Stake­hold­ers say while they wel­come the prime min­is­ter’s meet­ing with the Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States as a pos­i­tive de­vel­op­ment, she is be­ing ad­vised that, al­though sig­nif­i­cant, “ac­cess alone is not achieve­ment.”

In­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert and Uni­ver­si­ty of Al­ber­ta po­lit­i­cal sci­ence pro­fes­sor Dr Andy Knight said Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is be­ing re­ward­ed for her strong align­ment with the US ad­min­is­tra­tion — de­scrib­ing the planned meet­ing with Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump as an ob­vi­ous re­ward for her loy­al­ty.