There are certainly no documented instances of the two leaders working closely together on anything of substance. Odd, then, that Obama felt the need to take to Twitter on Wednesday and let the world know that he thinks Trudeau deserves to be reelected next week. Odder still was Obama’s decision to cite the fight against climate change as one of his key reasons for doing so. With its far larger black population and more front-of-mind history of racial tensions, it’s probably fair to say that tolerance of blackface is even lower in the United States than in Canada. Does Obama view mild-mannered Andrew Scheer, Trudeau’s Conservative Party rival, as a phenomenon as menacing to American and global interests as Brexit or Le Pen?

Source: Washington Post October 17, 2019 15:56 UTC