text: The “his Visigothic sidekick, Stephen Bannon” article reference unfairly maligned the Visigoths.
  
  On national unity, the article was too sanguine.  Canada has an urban vs rural/small-town/suburban divide although not as deep as the US’s. There’s an undertow of discontent on the Prairies, in Interior BC and parts of Ontario that would reject the policies of the Federal Liberal Party and cultivate a closer relationship with the US.  However, these leanings are undercut day-by-day by the over-the-top triumphalism, nastiness and international trade rapaciousness of the Trump Administration.  When the extortions that President Trump will demand as conditions for Keystone XL approval are announced, then this flirtation with Trumpism lite will be scotched.
  
  Obviously, Quebec has its own urban-rural divide with inspiration from the populist right of France as well as Trumpism but recent events have made the folly such reactionary xenophobia clear to all.