Letter from America: A Canadian millennial view

Any glee that Canadians might feel at our own 'Obama moment' has been tempered by the knowledge that Canada will feel the repercussions of America’s mistakes. While much remains uncertain, friends on both sides of the border have expressed frustration over Trump’s stated positions on immigration, trade, and climate change. In Canada, there is concern that Trump’s success might inspire a Canadian equivalent

Our inability to fathom a Donald Trump presidency before election night, like our blind confusion in its wake, is a testament to the dangers of political isolation. This isolation is partly engineered by the tools of modern campaigns, writes Morgane Richer La Flèche.Screen capture courtesy of CNN

Opinion

BY MORGANE RICHER LA FLèCHE

January 16, 2017

America is hard to see, or so wrote the poet Robert Frost in 1951. The 2016 American election, which exposed deep fractures in the nation’s discourse and demographics, has forced Americans and Canadians alike to revisit their understanding of the nation’s divided electorate. As the country goes ...

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