What Justin Trudeau needs from Joe Biden now

Life for Canada atop its volatile southern neighbor is like bedding down in a nice apartment built above a meth lab, according to a quote often attributed to late American comic Robin Williams.

The bully in the White House made the last four years especially fraught. When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau complained about US steel and aluminum sanctions imposed on spurious grounds that Canada was a national security threat, then-President Donald Trump blasted him as "very dishonest and weak." Another time Trump asked the PM, "Didn't you guys burn down the White House?" -- referring to the War of 1812. For his part, Trudeau was alarmed about the ex-President's undemocratic attempts to cling to power after he lost last year's election.