Most of the articles in the Opinion section
of the November 9 Globe & Mail were about ‘Trump Country.’ I read every word of disbelief/ disgust/dismay
about the outcome of the American Election, and agreed with almost all of them.
But I have only clipped and saved one article, the relatively positive ‘Taking control of our relationship with Trump’ by Edward Greenspon, Janice Gross Stein, and Drew Fagan.
The gist of this piece is that discussions
with the Trump government must shift from “the most beautiful word in the world”
– tariffs – to another subject of which he is fond ─ negotiations. And the focus
should be on “doing things together in areas where we can clearly help them,
and sometimes where only we can help.” These would include: Arctic security
(hence the painting, above), critical minerals, energy security, and advanced
technologies such as AI research, space surveillance, semi-conductor packaging.
*Pangnirtung is the only place in Canada where I’ve actually seen chartreuse arctic poppies. I like these flowers so much that I transplanted them as far away as Yukon in a painting I posted in 2016
