On Sunday afternoon, Justin Trudeau praised Joe Biden as an American patriot.
“He’s a great man,” the prime minister wrote on social media, “and everything he does is guided by his love for his country.”
That sentence could be read broadly as expressing admiration for Biden’s career of public service. It also could be read as praise specifically for the decision Biden took this weekend to relinquish the Democratic party’s nomination for president — that was the message Barack Obama offered in his own statement, released about an hour earlier.
