A good US President would say to the Canadian Ambassador in DC to tell Castro’s son to STFU or we’ll close the border and thus remove Canadian citizens’ access to quality health care.
Saw coverage of this on news here, he may have answered a French speaking reporter’s question in French but as is customary here he repeated statement in English. There was also useless talk from our equivalent to Secretary of State about dialogue with Israel about respecting rules of international law. A bit late for that now, we’re dealing with a rogue quasi-national entity that seems to act like a terrorist state then expects adversaries to follow rules of engagement. From a political perspective, I hope Trudeau and his cabinet keep sounding vaguely anti-Israel, it can only help drive votes away as Jews in Canada are heavily supportive of the Liberal Party, also there’s a certain voting bloc not of any particular ethnic group who support the Palestinian cause and are anti-Israel, but who vote for the NDP in Canada, and I suspect if Trudeau pulls away some of those votes, in ridings held by NDP now, it could give Conservative candidates a route to winning those ridings, some of them are weak Liberal vote ridings where they have finished third in recent elections. U.S. readers may not realize that the Liberals are quite unpopular in rural areas of Canada and the vote tends to be largely split by socialist NDP and the Conservatives in those areas. Where I live, it’s always very close between NDP and “Tories” but Liberals rarely reach even 10% of the vote in federal elections, and last time out barely managed to equal votes for two fringe parties in the 5% range. Problem for the Conservatives in Canada is to defeat enough Liberals and NDP in their weaker ridings to run up a bigger total than their combined seat count, as Liberals and NDP will always go into coalition together, and not in any other partnership. Liberals only do well in big cities and Quebec but it’s enough to guarantee them a near majority so if they can’t run up a large enough total, they can count on NDP support and govern that way instead. We tend to go on ten-year cycles in recent decades, and the Liberals have been in power since 2015 so their days are probably numbered.