Polite but puzzled Canadians try to grasp bitter shift
By Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg Opinion
I thought they might be angry.
Over the past quarter century, Ive spent big chunks of time in Canada; Montreal and Toronto on occasion, but mostly Vancouver and the South Shore of Nova Scotia. Vancouver is beautiful, but Nova Scotia has a unique hold on me; for a few years my wife and I owned a 200-year-old cottage there. So I was curious how we would be greeted on a return trip this month after President Trumps twin assaults on Canadas economy and sovereignty.
It turned out that everyone was nice. Also polite. No one seemed to hold us responsible for the actions of the bad orange man, as a waitress in Lunenburg called the U.S. president.
Were angry, but were trying to temper our anger so that were not ruining these generational relationships we have with the American people, David Mitchell, the mayor of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, told me in an interview. Were recognizing that this is one person who is fracturing a hundred years of solidarity.
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