shockedcanadian
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For 20 years I advised Canada to listen, now look. A few dishonest police forces over here are pals with a few naive, uncurious ones in America. Yippy. A sharp and predictable decline. NOW media talk about it, 25 years too late? Trump is to blame I'm sure (they need a scapegoat that ISN'T Canadia).... Canada’s relationship with the U.S. is in decline, and no one wants to talk about it.
They were there to talk mainly about what’s going right between Canada and the United States, economically. They were not there to talk about what’s gone so wrong with Trump, or politics in general in the Trump era.
Yet whenever any speaker did broach the subject of Trump or, more broadly, the crumbling state of democracy in North America, a definite ripple went through the crowded ballroom.
“Back in 1989, when the (Berlin) Wall came down, the United States was the principal exporter of democracy worldwide — frequently unsuccessfully, frequently hypocritically,” said Ian Bremmer, head of the Eurasia Group, which hosted this inaugural Canada-U.S. summit in Toronto
Canada’s relationship with the U.S. is in decline, and no one wants to talk about it
More than 50 years after Pierre Trudeau famously compared Canada-U.S. relations to “sleeping with an elephant,” it seems the beast is still lurking, Susan Delacourt writes.
This past week, on the very same day Donald Trump was being placed under arrest in New York, many of the leading voices in the Canada-U.S. relationship were rammed into packed meeting rooms and corridors at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Toronto.They were there to talk mainly about what’s going right between Canada and the United States, economically. They were not there to talk about what’s gone so wrong with Trump, or politics in general in the Trump era.
Yet whenever any speaker did broach the subject of Trump or, more broadly, the crumbling state of democracy in North America, a definite ripple went through the crowded ballroom.
“Back in 1989, when the (Berlin) Wall came down, the United States was the principal exporter of democracy worldwide — frequently unsuccessfully, frequently hypocritically,” said Ian Bremmer, head of the Eurasia Group, which hosted this inaugural Canada-U.S. summit in Toronto
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