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Donald J. Trump, 47th President of the United States of America gave his annual State of the Union Address (SOTU) on February 24, 2026, and everybody interested in American, and thus global politics, was talking, discussing, and writing about it.

Over the last few decades, particularly from the time when Ronald Reagan was President in the United States (in the 1980s), and Brian Mulroney was Canada’s Prime Minister (also in the 1980s), their personal rapport and their political and economic ideological affinity resulted in the first ‘Free Trade Agreement’ between Canada and the United States.

A book co-authored by two Americans, William J Lederer, a naval officer, and Eugene Burdick, a political scientist, was published in 1958, which coined the phrase ‘The Ugly American’, a tag describing the loud, boorish, self-absorbed, arrogant, and ignorant of cultures and values, and unwilling to learn American, who is a ‘Bull in a China Shop’ in foreign lands. This perception of ‘The Ugly American’ would describe Donald Trump very well today, as he is perceived by the vast

In recent years, Canada's trade relationship with the United States has faced increasing scrutiny.