Outgoing prime minister Justin Trudeau, who cancelled his year-end interviews with Canadian media outlets, sat down recently with CNN’s Jake Tapper for a friendly chat about the future of Canada-US relations.
The context is two-fold.
First, incoming president Donald Trump has escalated his personal razzing of Trudeau — calling him “Governor Trudeau” and musing about Canada as a 51st state. Second, he offered more aggressive speculations about using “economic force” to annex Canada entirely.
