Catherine Porter, The New York Times
January 22, 2021
Canadians welcome a renewed relationship with the United States after tolerating four years of insults and threats from the Trump administration.
TORONTO — We’re friends again!
That was the prevailing mood in Canada this week after the inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
After four years of being insulted, threatened, dismissed and slapped by the Trump administration, shellshocked Canadians felt the once-familiar warmth of their neighbor and closest ally, the United States. Of all the world leaders with whom Mr. Biden has to kiss and make up, Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, was the first to get an official phone call, on Friday evening.
“I can’t wait to go back to Washington, DC to work with the new Administration and Congress on our common interests” says president of the APMA , Flavio Volpe.
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