Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Spring Break will consist of two days in Jamaica. The PMO announced this evening that Harper will visit Jamaica for two days in April — April 19-20.
On Monday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with the Honourable Dr. Kenneth Baugh, Jamaica’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. It was Baugh's first official visit to Canada. (The PMO provided the photo at left of Harper's and Baugh's meeting)
“The visit will give Canada the opportunity to strengthen its partnership with Jamaica, one that is based on important political, commercial, and personal links. It will also reaffirm Canada's special relationship with the Caribbean,” the PMO said in a note to reporters announcing the visit.
The Jamaica visit will come right after Harper's attendance at the annual Summit of the Americas, April 17-19, in Trinidad and Tobago.
So that's the PM's spring break – four or five days in Caribbean almost all of which he'll spend in meetings.
Next Tuesday, incidentally, Harper jets to London, England for the G20 summit. The day after that wraps up, Harper heads to the NATO Heads of State meeting in Strasbourg, France, before returning to Canada on April 4.
The Jamaica trip is up after that.
(Of course, Ottawa, Jamaica, London, Strasbourg– the weather in any of those places is better than what Calgary went through this weekend.)