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This meeting isn't anything remarkable, but I laughed when I read the original story on the CBC website. It stated that Trudeau and Biden were having a "face to face" virtual talk. How does one have a "face to face" virtual anything?

Face to face means to be in the same place. The dictionary defines face to face as - so as to be close together and facing each other.

You cannot have a virtual "face to face". CBC changed the story. It became a virtual meeting.

COVID-19, climate change among top priorities for Trudeau-Biden meeting today
CP

Virtual meeting is the first bilateral one-on-one for Biden since taking office

The White House has released a fact sheet in advance of this afternoon's virtual meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden.

This is Biden's first bilateral meeting as president.

The fact sheet describes plans for a "road map" for progress in areas of mutual interest, including COVID-19, climate change, defence and social justice. It makes no mention of certain Canadian priorities, such as procuring more vaccine doses, freeing Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig from imprisonment in China or securing an exemption to Biden's Buy American plan.

Experts want Ottawa to push hard for an exemption so that Canada isn't harmed by Biden's plan to prioritize U.S. businesses for federal infrastructure and procurement.

The rest here - https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bilateral-meeting-biden-trudeau-1.5924455
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This is what CNN is reporting about the same meeting.

What Justin Trudeau needs from Joe Biden now
Analysis by Stephen Collinson

Life for Canada atop its volatile southern neighbor is like bedding down in a nice apartment built above a meth lab, according to a quote often attributed to late American comic Robin Williams.

The bully in the White House made the last four years especially fraught. When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau complained about US steel and aluminum sanctions imposed on spurious grounds that Canada was a national security threat, then-President Donald Trump blasted him as "very dishonest and weak." Another time Trump asked the PM, "Didn't you guys burn down the White House?" -- referring to the War of 1812. For his part, Trudeau was alarmed about the ex-President's undemocratic attempts to cling to power after he lost last year's election.

The rest here. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/23/world/meanwhile-in-america-february-23-intl-latam/index.html