Two countries face a pandemic: Canada's teamwork; Trump's feuds
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walked out of his Ottawa "cottage" on Friday morning, and bestowed a needed relief package on oil-dependent Alberta, a province that actively dislikes him and ousted four of his Liberal Party members of parliament in last October's Canadian election.
At the same hour, President Trump was directing a Tweet storm at opponents real and perceived. He accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of "complaining," said response to past epidemic by Biden/Obama "was a disaster," and decried "crazy Nancy Pelosi and Cryin' Chuck Schumer."
"Liberate Michigan! and "Liberate Minnesota," wrote the 45th president, in a bid to stir up protest against COVID-19 restrictions imposed by the states' Democratic governors, exercising powers Trump recognized Thursday in unveiling guidelines for easing pandemic protections. Mischief making is in the DNA of the 45th president.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee fired, back, saying of Trump: "The president is fomenting domestic violence and spreading lies," adding: "It is dangerously bombastic because it inspires people to do dangerous things."
Canada and the United States have embarked down different paths in dealing with the pandemic. The rivalries of one nation have been put on hold. The political wars of its southern neighbor have raged on, even as the number of Americans stricken in the pandemic has climbed toward 700,000.
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