It’s a tough conclusion that Bob Rae draws from a lifetime in politics, one he began as as a New Democrat in Ottawa and at Queen’s Park and recently ended as Canada’s newest former ambassador to the United Nations .

Can the country’s relationship with the United States be repaired by a change of heart, a change of tariff policy or a change of president in 2028?

“It isn’t possible to undo some of the damage that’s been done,” Rae said in an online discussion Wednesday with Phillips O’Brien, a professor of strategic studies at Scotland’s University of St. Andrews.

Freed now of his professional duty to be diplomatic, the former Ontario premier and interim federal Liberal party leader likened the breach that has opened between Ottawa and Donald Trump’s Washington to that of a dispute bet

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