As Mark Carney visited Germany and Latvia on Tuesday, his point man on Canada-U.S. relations was in Washington trying to mend fences.

It’s a tall task even after last week’s decision to put the elbows down and rescind Canada’s counter-tariffs on American goods outside of the steel, aluminum and auto sectors. Carney still needs to change up his team.

Specifically, as I’ve said before, Ambassador Kirsten Hillman has to be replaced because source after source continues to describe her as an impediment.

Hillman is a career diplomat and has been at Canada’s embassy in Washington since 2017. Before that, she worked at Foreign Affairs leading trade policy and negotiations for the federal government.

Over the last several months, sources have described Hillman as smart, accomplished, knowledge

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