CANADA/ECONOMY/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump is so unpopular in Canada that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is using the specter of the U.S. president to attack his conservative rival ahead of a national election set for next year. Trudeau, whose ruling Liberals have a 12-seat majority in the 338-seat parliament, calls Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer a climate change ‘ideologue’ who stokes ‘fear and division’ on immigration. Only 25 percent of Canadians have confidence in Trump, a fraction of the 83 percent garnered by former President Barack Obama two years ago, according to a Pew Research Center survey published last month. Trudeau and Trump have traded barbs. The U.S. president tweeted in June that the Canadian leader was ‘very dishonest and weak’ and later threatened to impose tariffs on Canadian-made cars that he said would be the ‘ruination’ of Canada’s economy.”
–Reuters, “Canada’s Trudeau Uses Trump Card to Attack Main Political Rival,” The New York Times online, November 16, 2018