What the U.S. election could mean for Canada

“Many writers, even superlative wordsmiths, must be having difficulty capturing exactly the phenomenon that we’ve been witnessing these past days, weeks and months in the United States presidential campaign.” With this observation, host of CBC News Now Heather Hiscox set the stage for an engrossing and wide-ranging discussion of what the outcome of the U.S. election means for Canada. The conversation, between David Frum and Gary Doer, and moderated by Hiscox, took place on the occasion of the LRC’s 25th anniversary gala in Toronto.

David Frum has been among North America’s leading conservative political thinkers for more than a decade. A speechwriter for President George W. Bush, he is a senior editor at The Atlantic, chair of the British think tank Policy Exchange and the author of eight books.

After a ten-year stint as NDP premier of Manitoba, Gary Doer served as Canada’s ambassador to the United States from 2009 until January 2016. He...