It’s not often that you bump into a Canadian while walking the dog in my neck of the woods in Costa Rica. But when a lady in a Toronto Blue Jays ballcap meets a man sporting an Elbows Up hat (now as passé as the Yellow Pages), a dialogue on sport and politics is bound to ensue.

After dealing with the Jays’ misfortune in game six because of a dodgy umpire, my interlocutor’s sense of outrage turned to the prime minister’s apology to Donald Trump over the Ontario government’s anti-tariff ad that excerpted clips of a speech made by Ronald Reagan. In the radio address from April 1987, the former president vigorously defended free trade, while conceding tariffs are justifiable when partners don’t live up to their obligations.

After hearing the ad, Trump ended all trade negotiations and said th

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