Great idea Leah... Accept an invitation to the White House... Attempt to curry favourable trade deals with
an isolationist, belligerent, embattled new President, and then insult him in his own house... What could
possibly go wrong??!!
And you're suggesting that Trudeau should have set the agenda for a White House visit?... How should he
have avoided 'becoming a prop'?... Walk away from photo op?... refuse to show for a press conference?...
And the Trade Minister of Sweden was right.. and you are wrong...  It WAS correct to observe the cultural
imperatives of the countries one visits...
Canada deals with despotic, criminal and culturally abhorrent regimes all over the world... THIS is the fight
you pick?... Get out of your cubicle!
Your essay came across as a bad op-ed piece, written by a first year feminist studies student, published in
a student newspaper... 
Get real!.