Michelle Wu scored big.

In broad daylight and in front of everyone, Wu, holding a chain saw, just “stole” Canada away from Gov. Maura Healey.

At least she did so in the public relations sense.

While Healey, 54, was bogged down over issues like Canadian energy, trade, tourism and tariffs, as well as meetings with Canadian premiers, Wu, 40, was in Nova Scotia felling a huge Christmas tree.

The contrast was striking.

There Wu was in Halifax last week, just days after an unchallenged reelection, sporting an orange hard hat, dressed in orange colored lumberjack—or “lumberjane”—gear, preparing to knock down a 45-foot white spruce Christmas tree that was headed for the Boston Common.

It was a media event that politicians dream of having.

Unlike Mike Dukakis in the famous—or infamous—photo

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