New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Paris and London on Monday to seek alliances as he deals with U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada’s sovereignty and economy.
Carney is purposely making his first foreign trip to the capital cities of the two countries that shaped Canada’s early existence.
Robert Bothwell, a professor of Canadian history and international relations at the University of Toronto, said Carney is wise not to visit Trump.
“There’s no point in going to Washington,” Bothwell said. “As (former Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau’s treatment shows, all that results in is a crude attempt by Trump to humiliate his guests. Nor can you have a rational conversation with someone who simply sits there and repeats disproven lies.”
Trump tantrum in…?
Good on the new Canadian PM for snubbing Trump for Europe.
We’ll see how it goes. We’re likely to have an election soon and there’s a chance we could vote in our own version of Trump (Pierre Poilievre). Luckily he’s gone from an unquestionable majority win in polling to a toss up with the Liberals because of people’s association of him with Trump. He’s desperately trying to shake that image but the best he came up with was a new slogan “Canada first” which is hilariously and obviously just a rip off of Trump’s “America first”
In the very depressing chance that PP wins though, I’d expect him to reverse course and let Trump walk all over our country…