Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will attend the funeral of former US President Jimmy Carter in Washington on Thursday.
Mr. Trudeau’s office, which made the announcement on Tuesday, indicates that the Prime Minister intends to reaffirm Canada’s commitment to maintaining a fruitful partnership
between the two countries. Earlier in the day, President-elect Donald Trump threatened to use “economic force” to annex his neighbor as a 51st State
American.
Jimmy Carter, who led the United States from 1977 to 1981, died on December 29 at the age of 100. A public funeral will be held Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral.
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Former President Jimmy Carter’s casket is transported to the Capitol for rest.
Photo : Associated Press / Mark Schiefelbein
The remains of the former US president arrived at the Capitol in Washington earlier Tuesday. The body of the former president, a native of Georgia, was transported Tuesday from Atlanta to Andrews Air Force Base, near the federal capital.
In honor of Jimmy Carter’s military service aboard submarines, his remains were transported to the United States Navy Memorial, where they were transferred to a horse-drawn cart for a funeral procession to the Capitol. , the seat of Congress.
His coffin, draped with the American emblem, was then carried by soldiers to the rotunda of the Capitol, where the remains will rest until Thursday, surrounded by an honor guard. He will be the 13th former US president to be buried in the Capitol. Abraham Lincoln, assassinated in 1865, was the first.
National day of mourning
The state funeral will take place Thursday at the National Cathedral, an Episcopal church in Washington that also hosted those of former presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George HW Bush.
Outgoing President Joe Biden will deliver the eulogy for the former Democratic head of state. All four living former U.S. presidents – Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump – are expected to attend.
Joe Biden decreed that Thursday would be a day of national mourning and that federal administrations would be closed. Flags will be flown at half-mast for 30 days even during Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20. The president-elect did not fail to criticize this decision.
Jimmy Carter, the first president to pass the age of 100, will be buried alongside his late wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter.
With information from The Canadian Press and Agence France-Presse
