Thanks, Thor. That perfectly exemplifies the problem here. I agree that Trump is doing a lot of harmful, and short-sighted things, but from the perspective of Canada, that does not matter.
Unfortunately, the world does not act like a high school clique where unpopular members are soon brought in line by the polite and cool majority.
This is exactly as I said, shallow symbolism in the service of Trump's brand of populism. Unfortunately, we in Canada, provide an easy target because simply, we refuse to play the real game of politics with a neighbour that has provided an extremely beneficial relationship to this country - without which we would not exist otherwise today!
There is nothing simplistic to what I am saying. If Trudeau wants to make headway with Trump, then he has to be prepared to make some concessions, and not continually thumb his nose at the guy.
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