I am a proud Liberal supporter and I have no problem with this relationship.  I would have had no problem  if it was a Conservative government and the same story broke.

Our government does not have the luxury of European governments to be all critical of the Trump administration and we need to know what they are thinking because NAFTA and the US/Canadian relationship is more influential on our day to day life than almost any other countries relationships (outside of military/occupational relationships).

We cannot afford to be blind-sided by Trump.  We cannot afford to antogonize him. He is also highly influencable (especially for such a stubbord person) by those close to him and we can and should use that to our advantage.