President Obama once promised to remake America’s image around the globe. He has kept that promise — only not in the way many voters who backed him had hoped.
Mr. Obama’s latest step in the image makeover is to tell Canada — the U.S.’s largest trading partner, largest supplier of energy and most loyal ally in war and peace — that its long-nurtured special relationship with the U.S. is not so special after all. To carry out the mission, Mr. Obama has sent a new U.S. ambassador to Ottawa.
Bruce Heyman, a former Goldman Sachs banker based in Chicago and a top Obama campaign bundler in both 2008 and 2012, may have deserved an ambassadorship for his services. But that’s what all those tiny islands in the Caribbean are for. Appointing Mr. Heyman — who is diplomatically challenged, to put it diplomatically — his top representative to Canada says a lot about what the president thinks about his northern neighbour.
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http://business.financialpost.com/2014/07/01/the-u-s-tells-ottawa-o-canada-stop-pouting/
Mr. Obama’s latest step in the image makeover is to tell Canada — the U.S.’s largest trading partner, largest supplier of energy and most loyal ally in war and peace — that its long-nurtured special relationship with the U.S. is not so special after all. To carry out the mission, Mr. Obama has sent a new U.S. ambassador to Ottawa.
Bruce Heyman, a former Goldman Sachs banker based in Chicago and a top Obama campaign bundler in both 2008 and 2012, may have deserved an ambassadorship for his services. But that’s what all those tiny islands in the Caribbean are for. Appointing Mr. Heyman — who is diplomatically challenged, to put it diplomatically — his top representative to Canada says a lot about what the president thinks about his northern neighbour.
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http://business.financialpost.com/2014/07/01/the-u-s-tells-ottawa-o-canada-stop-pouting/