Chrétien, Trudeau and Carney offer an interesting contrast in how to pursue Canadian realpolitik

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“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it,” Prime Minister Mark Carney averred in Davos on Tuesday. It was a striking phrase, I thought. A lot of the current Canadian conversation, quite understandably, involves wishing President Donald Trump would simply go away. And he will go away, from the White House at least, upon the inauguration of the next American president in three years.

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But Trump already went away once, and it didn’t conspicuously help Canada, and we shouldn’t have expected it to — at least not if we conceive “helping Canada” in terms of making us more prosperous, which we obviously should. The Democrats have traditionally been the more protectionist party, not the Republicans. One of the first things Joe Biden did upon winning the White House was cancel........

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