As Canada braces for civil unrest in U.S., feds likely to rely on contacts built over Trump years, says former PMO staffer

'The luck it will have in dealing with whatever comes is that the relationship-building efforts are so broad that they don’t really turn over,' says Diamond Isinger, who sat on a team dedicated to prepping for Trump.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office created a formal Canada-U.S. relations team after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

November 3, 2020

For nearly four years, Canada has had a team to help manage the country’s relations with its southern neighbour. Diamond Isinger, a former PMO staffer, was part of the original three-person team assigned to prepare for t...

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