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We left our moral authority and legal democratic principles on the floors of interrogation cells in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Gitmo a long time ago. It's just taken 20 years for the Canadians to figure out how sick and dangerous some of these Republican leaders can be.

We had the world behind us after 9/11; it was the first and only time NATO Article 5 was invoked. Everyone was there for us, especially Canada, but the Bush/Cheney lies, ignorant policies, corruption, and torture was exposed. I'm not sure why they ever felt comfortable with us after that.

Trump's evisceration and disgusting humiliation of our intelligence services has come home to bite us all in the ass. The amount of sharing between the US and Canadian sources has suffered. We need to rebuild that relationship, but they probably won't trust our judgement like they used to ever again. That's something Canada finally shares with the rest of the free world.

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