There must be some mistake here!  Allowing a column about a US or a Canada-US issue that fails to rip Trump a new one is completely out of recent Globe and Mail character.   At the very least, if you suggest the Trump-US wish list for modernizing NAFTA is, on balance, a positive set of initiatives you must then give Justin Trudeau the credit for somehow being the "architect" of this operation.  

A thoughtful column, Patrick, but you'll never get stuff like this past the left-lib cabal who seem to control what laughably is called "civil comment" here.

If you want to move up from being a mere columnist to the exalted status of being a poster, you will need to understand that "civil comment" is defined as open hostility and constant criticism of Trump and of Canadian conservatives and open reverence and kid gloves treatment of Trudeau.    

Will the Trudeau government which on most things has been characterized by "secrecy and doublespeak" reveal to Canadians its wish list for NAFTA?