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William Watson: Searching for ways to poke Trump in the eye

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Prime Minister’s Office has announced the federal cabinet will retreat the day of Donald Trump's inauguration.

The cabinet will go into a retreat (for two days , at a cost, I’m sure, of not more than a couple of hundred thousand dollars) to plan how Canada will not retreat in the face of Trump 's tariff provocations.

Jean Chrétien told our leaders they need to start displaying the “spine and toughness” this country has shown on many occasions.

A lot has been written about the need for national unity in our response to the U.S. But there’s also something to be said for good cop/bad cop.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is a convincing good cop, unwilling as she is to contemplate restricting Alberta 's energy exports to the United States .

Doug Ford may respond with Trump -like rational craziness.

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