Amigos in Trump’s America: time to rethink Canada’s long-term interests

For a neighbouring country dependent on U.S. economic and political stability, Canada has to be giving some thought to the volatility and potential dysfunction brewing away just below the surface in parts of the American polity.

Despite saying the right things about U.S. diplomacy and climate in particular, President Joe Biden hasn’t deviated a great deal from America’s profoundly nationalist, inward-looking shift in recent years. White House photograph by Erin Scott

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

November 17, 2021

OTTAWA—Canadians have been paying a price for months for the U.S. government’s monumental failure to bring some order and sense of justice to the migration situation at the U.S.-Mexican border. While Canada began allowing non-essential U.S. travellers into this country in the summer, COVID-19 r...

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