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Joe Oliver: For Carney, Trump is the gift that keeps giving

'Elbows-up' benefits the prime minister politically but getting to a deal will require compromises with a president Canadians truly dislike

According to the Angus Reid Institute, Canadians have “widespread detestation” of U.S. President Donald Trump: 79 per cent viewed him unfavourably as of Aug. 5, and that was before trade talks collapsed and Trump decreed a new name for Lake Ontario.

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For Prime Minister Mark Carney’s political prospects, however, Trump is the gift that keeps on giving — leading Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady to ask in a recent piece: “Is President Trump secretly........

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