Trudeau should keep his head down, stay off Trump’s radar

Mexico and China don’t have that option.

Justin Trudeau took to Twitter on the weekend writing 'To those fleeing persecution, terror, and war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith.' His response to Donald Trump's ban on Muslim immigrants undermines the script Mr. Trump is working from, writes Gwynne Dyer.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

February 1, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—Like Mexico, Canada is in the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Donald Trump has described as “the worst trade deal...ever signed in this country.” Unlike Mexico, Canada thinks that Trump is not planning to hurt it. But no good deed goes unpunished, so Prime Minister Just...

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