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Liberal leader Justin Trudeau to visit Yellowknife Friday

The Liberal Party leader will visit Yellowknife at the end of the week, according to the local campaign office.

1st trip North of 60 during the election campaign

Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau arrives at the airport in Inuvik, N.W.T., in January. Trudeau is expected to visit Yellowknife on Friday, his first North of 60 campaign stop of the election. (David Thurton/CBC)

Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau is expected to make a campaign stop in Yellowknife on Friday, according to the local campaign office.

It will be his first trip north during the election. He visited Yellowknife, Inuvik, N.W.T., and Iqaluit earlier this year.

NDP leader Thomas Mulcair was in Iqaluit last week while Conservative leader Stephen Harper visited Iqaluit, Hay River, N.W.T., and Whitehorse earlier in the campaign.

Nunavut's Liberal candidate has said previously that Trudeau will visit Nunavut during the campaign.

Details have yet to be finalized on who Trudeau will be meeting with while in Yellowknife, but officials say he will be available to answer questions from media.