Lunch with Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister, who is widely tipped as Justin Trudeau’s heir, was always going to be faintly surreal. I took the prime minister by the arm and said: ‘Can you believe what (Mitch) McConnell just said? “We don’t like their representative (Freeland) very much.” According to the Washington Post, Trump said at a private dinner that Freeland “hates America”. Most people in Canada think Freeland is destined to be prime minister. “Over the past two or three years, we — the believers in liberal democracy — have had a rude awakening,” Freeland continues.

Source: National Post February 05, 2020 17:20 UTC