Broader lessons to be learned from our quiet and off-the-side diplomacy

The approach has kept relationships strong on the Great Lakes and, in so doing, has bolstered their multi-billion-dollar economic impact, and maintained more than 240,000 Canadian jobs.
Richard Nixon and Pierre Trudeau, pictured in Trudeau's office on April 14, 1972. In 1969, prime Trudeau described Canada/U.S. relations in a way that remains relevant even today. He said, 'Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered … one is affected by every twitch and grunt.'
STRATHROY, ONT.—In 1969, prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau met with then U.S. president Richard Nixon and, while Trudeau praised our national partnerships, he also described the nature of Canada-U.S. relations in ...

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