Antony Blinken touched down in Ottawa Thursday, confirming that VIP U.S. government aircrafts are, in fact, capable of landing in Canada.
At least the secretary of State showed up. That’s more than can be said of his boss, President Joe Biden, who has yet to set foot in Canada — the United States’ top trading partner — since taking office. And there’s no sign of a presidential trip anytime soon.
“We’re not expecting a visit to Canada before the end of the year,” a senior Canadian government official with knowledge of the prime minister’s plans, not authorized to speak publicly, told POLITICO Friday.
It blows a timeline Biden and Trudeau set in June, when they met in Los Angeles and “agreed that the President will visit Canada in the coming months.”
[I’d love to posit a theory for this, but … it makes no sense at all. Biden and Trudeau are closely aligned on policy, and Canada is a major partner on trade and security. It’s either incompetence, or … yeah, it’s incompetence. — Ed]
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