Canadian Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, in Germany for a weeklong visit, met President Johannes Rau at his official residence in Berlin Wednesday for talks on immigration policy.
Clarkson was welcomed with military honors at Bellevue Palace in the German capital before meeting with Rau.
The two were to discuss Canada's experience as a multicultural society with 129 ethnic groups living on its soil. The Canadian system has been cited as a possible model for Germany as it plans to reform its own immigration policy.
Clarkson, who arrived in Germany on October 21, started her visit in the eastern state of Saxony.
She is to meet Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and the president of the lower house of parliament, Wolfgang Thierse, on Thursday and will spend Friday and Saturday in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state.
The governor general is Queen Elizabeth's representative in Canada. The British monarch remains Canada's nominal head of state -- Berlin, (AFP)
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