Polite but puzzled Canadians try to grasp bitter shift [View all]
By Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg Opinion
I thought they might be angry.
Over the past quarter century, I’ve spent big chunks of time in Canada; Montreal and Toronto on occasion, but mostly Vancouver and the South Shore of Nova Scotia. Vancouver is beautiful, but Nova Scotia has a unique hold on me; for a few years my wife and I owned a 200-year-old cottage there. So I was curious how we would be greeted on a return trip this month after President Trump’s twin assaults on Canada’s economy and sovereignty.
It turned out that everyone was nice. Also polite. No one seemed to hold us responsible for the actions of “the bad orange man,” as a waitress in Lunenburg called the U.S. president.
“We’re angry, but we’re trying to temper our anger so that we’re not ruining these generational relationships we have with the American people,” David Mitchell, the mayor of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, told me in an interview. “We’re recognizing that this is one person who is fracturing a hundred years of solidarity.”
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