Canada

The Hill -   The Pentagon’s announcement this week that the U.S. is pulling out of a joint military board with Canada marked a new flash point in a simmering feud between President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.  Carney played down the decision Tuesday, but the move elicited an angry response from others in Canada, who widely see it as a warning shot to Ottawa as it looks to diversify its military purchases and scale back its reliance on the U.S.

“I think it’s a symbolic blow from a Canadian sense to have that measure taken by” Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby, said David Perry, president of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. “But I think it’s maybe also a bit of a wake-up call about how we’ve treated some of these unique forums of cooperation — that can’t just treat them as historical artifacts.”