Let’s stipulate for the record: U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is a jerk with a serious lack of self-control. So when he mocked Canada as a potential “51st state,” he did the one thing no Canadian politician has managed to do: unify a deeply divided country. Talk like this, and his threatened tariffs, has created a wide reaction against Trump, not only from the predictable progressive types, but even conservative figures like Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
