The U.S. and Canada: chilly relations won’t sever the ties that bind | GIS: Global Trends Video Reports
29 January 2019



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The U.S. and Canada: chilly relations won’t sever the ties that bind
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have a contentious relationship. Yet the economic, security and administrative ties that bind the United States and Canada together are far stronger than any hostility between the two countries’ leaders. Though differences in defense policy will exacerbate tensions over the next few ...

Dr. James Jay Carafano
Relations between Canada and the United States were likely to get frostier no matter which Republican had won the 2016 presidential election. The sympathies of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, which came to office in 2015, were much closer to those of the previous U.S. administration under President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.
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