State dinners: a meal, some speeches, some selfies

Canada’s newly-minted prime minister should consider using state dinners, and the like, to pass along a few hard truths to Washington audiences.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama. These state dinners don’t come along every week, PMO. The next time one happens, consider delivering a few cautionary messages, writes Warren Kinsella. Photograph courtesy of The White House

Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

March 14, 2016

TORONTO—A meal, some speeches, and some selfies. That’s what state dinners are all about, mostly. They’re supper, basically, except you have to wear your best clothes and be on your best behaviour. When Jean Chrétien was still running things, I was lucky enough to be invited to some state d...

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