OTTAWA – His trip to India made a lot of undesired headlines globally, butCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can still make jokes about it.

Speaking at this year’s Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner on May 26,Trudeau first went after political opponents and others, but reserved alarge part of his speech to mock his trip to India. And the Canadian PMadmitted he’d tried his best to repress all his memories about the trip.Play Video

“I don’t rememeber the India trip. I think to myself we should really go toIndia sometime, the same way I say to myself we should have a*Highlander 2* sometime,because that was such a great movie,” he said.

The Canadian Prime Minister then went to show a slideshow that he said histeam had put together about the trip.

*An upside down map of India *

After a sad emoticon alongside the text ‘India Trip 2018’, Trudeau said histeam had suggested going to India to boost ties between people and inviteinvestment into Canada.

“That was the beginning of the end,” he said.

The Candian prime minister said that despite the scathing internationalmedia coverage and ridicule, “it was a pretty good trip”.

Talking about being welcomed to India, Trudeau said that he was received bythe Minister of Agriculture, which he joked some commentators had pointedout, was a “very big deal.”

There was a lot of speculation over why Prime Minister NarendraModi usually present to greet fellow heads of state on their arrival, wasabsent for Trudeau’s visit.