FREELAND ON THE LECTURE CIRCUIT

   She told a crowd of diplomats, academics and politicians blocks from the White House that she realizes that some Americans no longer think that world order is of any benefit to them, even though they helped create it and wrote “the biggest cheques” to support it.
   “We see this most plainly in the U.S. administration’s tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum,” Freeland said in her acceptance speech for winning the Foreign Policy journal’s diplomat of the year award.
    “They are a naked example of the United States putting its thumb on the scale, in violation of the very rules it helped to write.”