LISTEN | Two countries, one community: The Current 1:14:23 Live at the Haskell Free Library, right on the U.S. border

Bestselling author Louise Penny says it would be foolish to dismiss the 51st state rhetoric that U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly leveled at Canada.

“I think that there is not a country that's been invaded, a peoples who have been targeted … who hasn't looked back and thought, what did I miss?” Penny told Matt Galloway in a special show with a live audience.

“Where was the moment when it could have been stopped? And I think we're living through that moment right now,” she said.

Penny was speaking on stage at the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, a unique venue that is split by the U.S.-Canada border. Part of the building is in Stanstead, Que.; pa

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