Strolling several years ago in Vancouver, Canada, I inadvertently crossed the street in front of a car after my light turned red but before the vehicle began moving. If you do this in the San Francisco Bay Area, the driver might toot and shout at you. In my native New York, you’d hear a loud honk and an even louder expletive.
The Vancouver motorist instead said, “Excuse me, did you know that you’re crossing against the light?”
Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Country
Canadians are among the nicest and most polite people on the planet. Americans are blessed to have them as neighbors.
Yet Donald Trump is spitting in these wonderful folks’ faces, on everything from fentanyl to immigration to tariffs to statehood. His spiteful barbs portend long-term damage to what once seemed our two nations’ unbreakable goodwill. This potential funeral for a friendship says much about America’s shrinking place in the world.
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