Dhaka, Dec. 13 -- Canada was one of the few countries that took a very clear stance on the side of Bangladesh's independence right from the beginning. Under the leadership of the great liberal icon Pierre Trudeau who shared a great rapport with Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The relations between Bangladesh and Canada date back to Bangladesh's independence in 1971, when the then Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau came forward speaking in favour of Bangladesh's Liberation War at the international level, then in recognising Bangladesh immediately after the independence. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina conferred Friends of Liberation War Honour award posthumously on Pierre Trudeau in 2016, is a t...