Firm handshakes, hard lines: Trudeau, Biden to talk protectionism, Haiti, migration

James McCarten, The Canadian Press He’s hell-bent on restoring blue-collar American manufacturing to its former glory, considers free trade a dirty word and wants Canada to wade voluntarily into a failed, gang-ravaged state that’s a quagmire waiting to happen. To be sure, Joe Biden is no Donald Trump. But he doesn’t always make it obvious. The U.S. president arrives in Ottawa tonight on a whirlwind 24-hour visit — a significantly less elaborate itinerary than first envisioned in the Prime Minister’s Office — two full years since becoming commander-in-chief. “This will be the first true, in-person bilateral meeting between the two…