The PM should have hesitated |
It seems my friend, Sally, and I wake up each morning asking the same question: “What has he done now?”
The answer last Saturday was starting a war with Iran.
Sally is in her 90s. A native of Pennsylvania, she owns a home in Fairhope, Alabama, where she spends the winter. Spring, summer, and early fall finds her in Canada on Campobello Island, N.B., which is where I first met her years ago.
She called last week.
“I’m surprised a Canadian would talk to an American right now,” she began.
“Depends on the American,” I replied.
Sally is beside herself about the war into which Trump has taken her country. So am I.
I’m also upset that our prime minister, Mark Carney, so quickly appeared in support of it. Why didn’t he channel his inner Jean Chrétien, who immediately gave a flat “no” when George W. Bush wanted to........