Maybe it doesn’t matter if Mike Pence is upset with Justin Trudeau for raising the abortion issue during his courtesy visit to promote the new NAFTA deal.
Still, it seemed ungracious to say the least that Trudeau would discomfit a guest who had come to make amends for past slights by the Trump Administration.
But the prime minister clearly made the calculus that, despite the bonhomie, embarrassing his guest was in his best electoral interests.
Trudeau used the visit to raise concerns over women’s access to abortion in certain U.S. states – a complaint that would appear to have little relevance to a representative of the federal government, far less one on a trade mission.
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