Trump’s talk about Canada parrots Putin’s claims on Ukraine

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It took a while for Canadian politicians to figure out that Donald Trump wasn't joking with his talk about annexing Canada. After Trump raised the idea at a dinner in Mar-A-Lago attended by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Nov. 29, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc said the "joke" was actually a positive. "The president was teasing us. It was, of course, in no way a serious comment," LeBlanc said . "The fact that there's a warm, cordial relationship between the two leaders and the president is able to joke like that, we think, is a positive thing." No one is...