The U.S. president’s refusal to play by the established rules of the game is eliciting stunned reactions from all four corners of the globe. For a world that’s grown used to the banalities of so-called proportional responses and discretion from its leaders, Donald Trump’s antics are simply hair-raising.
This is especially true in Canada, where this electroshock therapy seems to have shaken us out of our torpor, or the cozy cocoon where we had found shelter, somewhere between comfort and indifference, leagues away from growth and dynamism.