
By Aaron Wherry, CBC News, July 24, 2016
We should perhaps not regard the roiling American political scene with great smugness
On the morning after Donald Trump — a man that has made the writer Ezra Klein “truly afraid” for his country, a “poisonous messenger” in thewords of the New York Times, a “peril” in the judgement of the Washington Post — became one of two nominees for president of the United States, the most exciting news items in Canada were the public’senthusiastic response to the latest census and the makings of a deal oninterprovincial trade.