Canada’s ‘damaged relationship’ with U.S. overplayed according to Peter Loewen

November 23, 2015

Following the first meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama during this weeks APEC summit in Manila, Trudeau’s principal secretary, Gerald Butts, tweeted that his boss’s “top foreign policy priority would be to repair Canada’s damaged relationship with the US.” But Peter Loewen, head of the Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk School of Global Affairs in Toronto, is skeptical that the relationship with Canada’s top trading partner eroded that much over nine years. While he concedes Harper was not a “warm person,” that did not impede Canada-U.S. relations in a big way. The full Yahoo! News story can be read here.