The morning-after elephant: whom will Canada be sleeping (or not) next to for the next four years?

Living next to Donald Trump’s America hasn’t really been like sleeping with an elephant at all because nobody’s slept in four years. That may be about to change.
The reason there’s no sane debate to be had about which elephant Canada would be better off waking up next to on Nov. 4 is that Donald Trump himself has settled the question, writes Lisa Van Dusen.
There is no cliché about Canada’s relationship with the United States more over-flogged than the famous Pierre Trudeau quote about how living next to America is like sleeping with an elephant. I’ve used it myself more than once—go ahead, Google it. But because it lends itself so well to Trump...

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