Trump’s Man in Canada Practices a No-Holds-Barred Diplomacy
Ambassador Pete Hoekstra is the unabashed defender of the president in a country where tariffs and 51st-state talk are wildly unpopular
Amanda Coletta
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Meet the Conservative populist looking to unseat Canada’s Liberals
Pierre Poilievre was once described as having the “face of a choir boy and the heart of a political pit bull” with a habit of “shooting blindly from the lip.” On a bright early spring evening, a queue of Canadian rallygoers snaked through a hotel lobby and around the block. Some had waited in the cold for an hour. Cars...
From ‘sunny ways’ to cloudy days: Canadians have tired of Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rose to power in 2015 — and rescued the Liberal Party from irrelevance — on promises to bring “real change” and infuse Canadian politics with “sunny ways.” Nearly nine years later, the forecast for the progressive icon is cloudy. His party, which has been slumping in the polls for more than a year, now trails the...