Cash, news and tiptoeing around Trump: 3 ways politics touched us this week
OTTAWA — To listen to Justin Trudeau as he trekked across Western Canada this week, one might think nothing of huge significance had happened south of the border. But the world couldn’t look away as Donald Trump made headline after headline in his first days as U.S. president.
There was pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, threatening to do the same with NAFTA and approving — sort of — the Keystone XL pipeline. And Trump wasn’t done, not by a long shot.
From contemplating the use of torture and tightening up immigration to provoking the beginnings of a trade war with Mexico, the week’s decisions were profound, disparate and quick, shocking many a government official into perplexity.
As Trudeau and his federal Liberals tiptoed around him, they began incrementally to define how best to approach the Trump administration — a fixation that all but obscured other key developments on fundraising and how to save the struggling media industry.