Carlo Dade, director of international policy at the University of Calgary School of Public Policy: “The big story for Latin America and the Caribbean was not the big story globally, that is, the absence of damage caused by U.S. President Trump. Success was always going to be about having less. That also holds for what may be most consequential for the region: the reappearance of a serious Canada that shows up without the baggage of its recent moralizing, finger-wagging and larding of international economic agendas with virtue signaling on social issues. This is the Canada that nations of the hemisphere may distantly remember from a time when Canada mattered to the region, when it played a useful and helpful role centered on truly shared interests of importance. That an eroding economy at home and turmoil abroad have sharpened minds in the new government in Ottawa was on display in a part of Canada that had little, if any, tolerance for the previous government’s agenda. The evidence for this is scant, but in Western Canada, we take what we can get. Significant in Canada was the…”