The headline has been loud: Joe Biden will disapprove the Keystone XL pipeline as one of his first acts as president, sometime after noon Eastern, when Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn in as the new president and vice president of the United States.
The Keystone XL pipeline decision will prove to be a minor footnote in the relationship between Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. As we have noted, the Keystone XL pipeline isn't a good pipeline project for either country.
As for what Biden and Trudeau should work on, we have a few ideas.
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The relationship should start with a Biden visit to Canada, hopefully in late winter or early spring. COVID-19 will make that difficult for so many reasons.
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Katherine Brucker is the current acting U.S. Ambassador to Canada. Brucker took over for Richard M. Mills Jr., who was acting in that role from August 23, 2019 to November 9, 2020.
Given how many fires Biden needs to put out, the U.S. Ambassador to Canada isn't at the top of the list. Brucker will have a much easier job later today with the transition in power.
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The Canada-U.S. relationship is at an all-time low. Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris can do a lot to get that relationship in much better shape. They start their work later today.
There is great potential for what the countries can do once the pandemic has subsided. Hope to be writing about that at some point.
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