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What has just happened to Canada? And we are the Americans’, although most of them don’t know it. Canada was a founding member of Nato and a strong supporter of the new international institutions such as the United Nations, the IMF and the World Bank the Americans were setting up. There is much more to the relationship than security and trade. Canadians see the Americans as cousins. Americans tend to think we are just like them and so don’t bother to learn much about us. Trump’s vulgarity could be the one diplomatic style Kim Jong-un understands | Simon Jenkins Read more When Donald Trump was elected, our government, as its predecessors have always done, set out to establish friendly links with the new administration. Trudeau himself and his foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, made a point of getting alongside the new president and his advisers. So when Trump calls the chief minister of one of his country’s most reliable friends “very dishonest and weak” he is clearly not putting the interests of the United States first. The United States is shattering an international order – economic but also political – that has served the world and the US itself well.