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    Canada and America are cousins. We don't stab each other in the back | Margaret MacMillan

    Donald Trump is shattering not just the centuries-long relationship with Canada, but an entire international order that has served the US well
    by Margaret MacMillan Jun 11, 2018 4 minutes
    ‘Trudeau held his ground in the famous Trump handshake. The Canadian prime minister is younger and much more handsome. Alpha males don’t usually like that.’ Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

    What has just happened to Canada?

    Bewilderment. Fear. Anger. Hurt. Canadians today are struggling to understand what Donald Trump has just done to us.

    We know the United States can be a bit strange at times and we have had our tricky moments. In the 19th century we didn’t much like the loud annexationist voices south of the border, or American support for Sinn Féin adventurers who thought by seizing the Canadian colonies they could force Britain out of Ireland. More recently our relations during the Vietnam war were strained because many Canadians opposed it, and said so, and Canada sheltered draft dodgers. President Lyndon Johnson once took our much smaller prime minister Lester Pearson and shook him after the Canadian made a

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