Canada, US rework ties

Lending some urgency to building bridges with the US is the upcoming Group of Seven countries' gathering in Canada in June

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Canada's stinging electoral rebuke of America's populist and punitive tariffs and threats to the nation's sovereignty, exactly within 100 days of President Donald Trump's second term, will resonate across the Atlantic and beyond.

The sensational victory for the political neophyte Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose Liberal Party was until recently written off as an electoral force, will doubtless raise expectations among centrist forces in many countries that have yet to coalesce around a strategy to counter Trump's onslaught on global institutions.