Ibbitson writes: "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s entire government is working flat out to win support for NAFTA on the Hill and in state capitals." When they aren't threatening to pull the plug on the Boeing purchases or to put a tax on exports of US thermal coal through BC ports, that is. And Ivison buys into all the overblown hype about the Trump team colluding with Russia in the 2016 election campaign. (Trump Jr's meeting with a Russian lawyer that Obama's banana republic justice system hadn't kicked out of the country even though she had overstayed her visa hardly ranks with the overt collusion of the Clinton campaign with the Ukrainian government that brought down Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.) Sadly we seem to have seen peak Ibbitson. It is not the Trump presidency but Ibbitson's columns that seem to be unravelling.