Canada should be alarmed by Cold War rhetoric emerging from U.S.

Unfortunately for Canada, the 'sleeping elephant' is awake. Every 'twitch and grunt' made will be felt by Canadians from coast to coast to coast. The ideological spiral between the two rivals will continue. It’s time we brace ourselves.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, pictured in this file photo with U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence, delivered a scathing speech on China titled 'Communist China and the Free World’s Future,' on July 23, 2020, at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California.Photograph courtesy of U.S. Department of State

Opinion

BY DARREN TOUCH

July 29, 2020

CALGARY—On a visit to Washington, D.C., to meet with U.S. president Richard Nixon in 1969, prime minister Pierre Trudeau said, “Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by ever...

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