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If Trump returns to U.S. office, will Canada be more ready?

Ottawa learned lessons from Trump’s first term — and vice versa, says ambassador
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Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023, in Reno, Nev. Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., says her team is hard at work getting ready in the event former president Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Godofredo A. Vásquez

It’s a truism in foreign-policy circles that the world learned some hard lessons from Donald Trump’s volatile first term as president.

But as the prospect of a second term looms, could it also be true that the notoriously stubborn Trump and his advisers left the White House with a better grasp of Canada’s relationship with — and importance to — the United States?

“Yeah, I think so — I do,” said Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s envoy in Washington.

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