Canada’s diplomats in the United States have a recurring fear: that our country might become ensnared in America’s bitter partisan wars.
Take oil pipelines as an example: Democrats win power and cancel a project, Republicans get back power and reverse the policy, Democrats replace them, and on and on it goes, ad infinitum. It’s what happened with Keystone XL.
Now, imagine the entire national government of Canada becoming an object of polarization, disdained and detested by one-half of the major political parties in the United States.
We need not imagine it anymore: A swath of the American public now bubbles with enmity toward Canada’s
