The buzz of meeting the president of the United States


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Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada in the House of Commons, hands a Peace by Chocolate bar to US President Joe Biden prior to a book signing at Parliament Hill, in Ottawa on March 24.MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images The canned political communication that emerges from Canadian-American bilateral visits like the brief and much-anticipated sojourn U.S. President Joe Biden made to Ottawa this week tends to emphasize the historic and monumental. There’s the 8,891-kilometre (or, if you prefer, 5,525-mile) border that dissolves in the warm glow of family and friendship ties, trade, manufacturing and cultural overlap. There’s the long...