If, as Pierre Trudeau famously said, living next to the U.S. is like sleeping next to an elephant, Canada is now bracing for the volatile lurches of a very different kind of pachyderm.
, with big potential implications for Canada, on issues ranging from trade and climate to security and democracy.
President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper take questions in the Reading Room in the Centre Block at Parliament on February 19, 2009Â during President Barack Obama’s first foreign trip since being elected.Â
Bill and Hillary Clinton with Jean and Aline Chretien in Ottawa on Feb. 23, 1995.
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, pictured here with his wife, Mila, along with U.S. president Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan, The two leaders famously sang “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” at the so-called Shamrock Summit in Quebec City in March 1985. Â
U.S. president Lyndon Johnson with Secretary of State for External Affairs Paul Martin Senior on May 25, 1967 in Montreal. Johnson visited Expo ‘67 and later met with Prime Minister Lester Pearson in the Gatineau Hills for talks related to the Middle East crisis and Vietnam.
Arriving as a general on Jan. 1, 1946,  in the uniform he wore as the commander of the Allied Forces, future U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower, stood with his wife, Marnie, at University of Toronto, flanked by chancellor Dr. John Cody (left) and university president Dr. Sidney Smith. Eisenhower was in Toronto to receive an honorary degree, he drew a cheering crowd of more than 70,000 as he and his wife rode up Bay St. during a ticker tape reception. Thousands of men, many of them former members of the Canadian Second Division, shouted “Hey Ike!” at the general who led them into battle.Â
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau prepares to speak on June 27, 1969 during ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of the St. Lawrence Seaway in the Place de Nations at Montreal’s Man and His World. From left are David Eisenhower, grandson of the late president, President Richard Nixon, Trudeau, Mrs. Nixon and Mrs. Eisenhower, all at unveiling of plaque.
Governor General George Vanier, first lady Jackie Kennedy, U.S. president John F. Kennedy Jr. and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in Ottawa in a photo published May 1, 1961.
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King with U.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Second Quebec Conference during World War II, in a photo published September 18, 1944. King said Canada will be a partner in the coming undertakings against Japan.
U.S. President Donald Trump is greeted by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the G7 Summit in La Malbaie, Quebec, on June 8, 2018.Â
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