Vice President JD Vance has been advised against visiting Canada by one of his closest pals, who happens to be a politician in the country.
37-year-old Jamil Jivani was friends with Vance since their good old days at Yale Law School, where they both studied together. Now, he’s a conservative MP and extended an open invitation to Vance to visit the Ontario constituency.
But things took a turn for the worse when he opted to decided to revoke his invite to the US Vice President due to the anti-Trump sentiment that resonated clearly through his voice and thoughts.
The fact that the US President was thinking about annexing Canada and making it a part of the 51 states and imposing a 25% tariff on exports was just an uncalled-for decision, he mentioned.
Jivani had dinner with Vance in Arlington in Virginia, in December during the presidential transition period and even attended Trump’s inauguration in DC.
His comments illustrate just how fast the mood shifted in reply to the Trump administration’s rhetoric towards the neighbor on the northern side. The Canadian suburban district of the North houses a GM plant where Chevrolet is produced and where employees are anxious about the auto industry’s future as a result of Trump’s sudden trade war.