Movements back toward normal
For every pitfall, progress.
“If I had known you would survive two deep-state assassination attempts to become president again, and then threaten me with election-defining tariffs, I would never have been so forward.”
‘Kokanee Grope’ scholars such as yours truly may choose to imagine that’s how proceedings kicked off at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend, as the PM on the way out surprised a nation by absconding to meet with the President on the way back in; but, at least for once, it was a surprise in the best interests of Canada.
The real President of the United States called the talks “very productive”, Trudeau toned down the imported and unsuccessful Kamala comms (for now), and both sides appear to have left on cordial terms (Trump ball-busting notwithstanding).
With Canforce-One departing Palm Beach International with as significant a homework assignment as it gets, lest the already historically unpopular Trudeau wishes to saddle generational tariffs on an electorate that no longer has a middle class, there are indeed reasons for optimism by the adjusted standards of lost Liberal decades.
Love’em or hate’em, oftentimes it takes a real leader, with interests other than self, to get things rolling.