{"id":290453,"date":"2017-01-17T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T16:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-scrambles-to-keep-privileged-ties-with-trump-led-america\/"},"modified":"2017-01-17T17:11:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T16:11:02","slug":"canada-scrambles-to-keep-privileged-ties-with-trump-led-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-scrambles-to-keep-privileged-ties-with-trump-led-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada scrambles to keep privileged ties with Trump-led America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Canada scrambles to keep privileged ties with Trump-led America<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Roger Jordan<br \/>\n    <br \/>17 January 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Canada\u2019s Liberal government has launched a major diplomatic offensive to convince the incoming Trump administration to maintain and expand the Canadian bourgeoisie\u2019s economic and military-security partnership with the US, including privileged access to the US market.<\/p>\n<p>Since the November 8 US election, Trudeau\u2019s principal secretary, Gerald Butts, and his chief of staff, Katie Telford, have held at least a dozen meetings with top representatives of Trump\u2019s transition team, including his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and chief strategist, the neo-fascist owner of Breitbart News, Stephen Bannon.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, shortly after the Liberals publicized their concerted efforts to \u201cengage\u201d with Trump, Trudeau shuffled his cabinet. The press uniformly interpreted Trump\u2019s impending assumption of the US presidency as the chief reason for the shuffle. For his part, Trudeau said Canada\u2019s government had to take into account the \u201cshift in global context.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For three-quarters of a century, Canadian imperialism has relied on its partnership with Washington to advance its global interests. Canada was a founding member of NATO, is tied to the Pentagon through the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and since the dissolution of the Soviet Union has participated in virtually every US war in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. <\/p>\n<p>The Canada-US military-security alliance is underpinned by a close economic partnership. Fearing the growth of protectionism in Washington and the increasing division of the world into regional trading blocs, the most powerful sections of the Canadian bourgeoisie changed course in the 1980s, abandoned their traditional \u201cnational policy\u201d and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/01\/17\/cana-j17.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Canada scrambles to keep privileged ties with Trump-led America By Roger Jordan 17 January 2017 Canada\u2019s Liberal government has launched a major diplomatic offensive to convince the incoming Trump administration to maintain and expand the Canadian bourgeoisie\u2019s economic and military-security partnership with the US, including privileged access to the US market. Since the November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}