Canada is not Mark Carney. He is the current prime minister and represents us. But like all PMs, he will come and go and we will remain. Most people would agree with that.

The United States is not Donald Trump. It’s amazing how many Canadians can’t agree with or even have an intelligent, reasonable conversation about that.

I tried to have that conversation recently on my Newstalk1010 radio show. It had to do with a report that said that nearly 20% of Americans think the U.S. should take over Canada.

I took solace from the fact that two-thirds of Americans responding to the survey said they believed that Trump should back off from threatening and bullying sovereign nations like Canada and Greenland. I am speculating, but I wonder if that polling was a part of Trump’s decision to........

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