Susan Delacourt: Canada’s relationship with the U.S. is in decline, and no one wants to talk about it
This past week, on the very same day Donald Trump was being placed under arrest in New York, many of the leading voices in the Canada-U.S. relationship were jammed into packed meeting rooms and corridors at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Toronto.
“In 2023, you can make the argument that the United States is increasingly the leading exporter of tools that damage and even destroy democracy, including in the United States, including in Canada.” Another former U.S. ambassador to Canada, Bruce Heyman, was one of the few speakers to publicly say on stage what many were buzzing about in the hallways of the Ritz: “What I worry about most for the Canada-U.S. relationship is what’s happening back at home,” Heyman said, “and today is a perfect example. It’s a huge mistake not to put that on the table.”
“Let’s not just talk about my earlier statement about exporting tools that destroy democracy. In 1989, other countries looked at the United States as an aspirational model. You wanted your political system to be like the U.S., right? No one would say that today. You want to send your kids to American universities, you want to buy a piece of real estate in the U.S. and Canada. You’d like the reserve currency. But no one would say we want our political system to run like that.
“But I do focus on it pretty regularly,” he said. Polarization takes hold, Coons said, when “you stop negotiating, talking, listening, compromising. When you stop respecting each other, when you’re convinced that the other side doesn’t share your values, is only interested in running over you.”
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