Region Johnston: Johnston and West Bank

region johnston: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked Johnston to visit the region, according to The Waterloo Record. Johnston is the first Canadian Governor General to make state visits to Jordan and Israel. David Johnston wrapped up an eight-day, three-country tour of the Middle East on Saturday in which he affirmed Canada support for a negotiated Middle East peace -- preferably with the creation of an independent Palestine alongside Israel. The tour, which also included a stop in the West Bank, is expected to feed into the Liberal government effort to recalibrate Canada Middle East policy. Johnston told The Canadian Press in an interview from Jerusalem that resolving the historic conflict by creating an independent Palestine living in co-existence with Israel will help solve many of the problems currently plaguing the Middle East. Trudeau has promised a more balanced position after a decade of hardline Canadian support for Israel under Stephen Harper. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.