The invitation is only problematic in two scenarios:
- You believe the person making the invitation intends to adopt the policies of the person invited
- You are embroiled in the depths of the culture war and have abandoned the notion that rational civil discourse between opposing view points is possible.
Neither of these scenarios should apply to Carney, leader of Canada, trying to host a policy maker ostensibly in control of US foreign policy, while the number one issue his gov faces is US trade policy. If we were Poland in 1938 I would expect Carney to invite Hitler and Goebbles over to discuss policy.
However, if Smith or PP made the invitation there is a strong probability that item 1 is in play, and that's why it would be intolerable.
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