Canadian business warily eyes US election pitfalls while Trudeau preaches calm
OTTAWA — The elephant is grunting and twitching.
Pierre Trudeau’s famous analogy of Canada’s precarious place sleeping next to an American leviathan was top of mind Monday on the eve of a U.S. election that has barely glanced at its northern neighbour.
“Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant,” the father of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Americans at Washington’s National Press Club in March 1969.
“No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”