Justin Trudeau’s office says neither he nor Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni were able to enter the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), which went into lockdown over the protests.
Demonstrators criticized the federal government’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war and chanted that Trudeau was funding a genocide in Gaza.
“Due to security concerns, the event was cancelled,” a spokesperson for the PMO told CBC News on Saturday night via email.
The two G7 leaders discussed a wide range of topics, including what Meloni called the “very difficult Middle East crisis.”
Israel declared war on Hamas following an Oct. 7 attack that saw 1,200 people killed and some 250 kidnapped by the Islamist militants, according to Israeli tallies.
Canada, which considers Hamas a terrorist group, has repeatedly said that Israel has the right to defend itself, but Ottawa has more recently called for a ceasefire in the conflict due to the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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