But while Cockburn applauds Sunak’s transatlantic travels, is there a danger perhaps that Britain’s California-lovin’ PM is getting a little too Americentric?

The Tory leader shared a post Wednesday to mark the anniversary of D-Day when, in his words, “British and American soldiers were landing on the beaches of Normandy.” He tweeted images of himself laying a remembrance wreath along with emojis of the British and American flags. But where exactly was the Canadian one? Some 14,000 Canadians landed or parachuted into the invasion area on D-Day, with the Canadian War Museum recording more than 1,000 casualties including 359 deaths.

[Not to mention the losses suffered by Canadians at Dieppe, the doomed forerunner to the Normandy invasion and largely overshadowed by the spectacular success of Operation Overlord. No one learned much from the disaster of Gallipoli in the first world war, it seems. A lot of Canadians bled for the success of D-Day in 1942 and in 1944. Not only should they not be overlooked, they should be celebrated. — Ed]