A perfect embodiment of the U.S. government behaviours likely to kneecap Republicans in Tuesday’s midterms, surprisingly, is right here in Canada — in the person of Donald Trump’s surly envoy.
On the same day last week that former president Bill Clinton’s stated that the U.S. has been treating Canada “like dirt,” U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra was at a Gatineau conference on space, yanking Canada’s chain by dissing its view that Trump’s trade war has contributed to a rupture in bilateral relations.
