‘We’re getting stabbed in the back’: Vancouver, Ottawa demonstrators protest arrival of U.S. tariffs

Marcel Pepin still remembers when American peacekeepers would stroll into his Canadian Armed Forces barracks on their joint base in the Sinai Peninsula to borrow a T-shirt with a maple leaf or beaver on it so they could feel safer strolling in the nearby Egyptian town of Arish.That was in the 1980s, but, he says, this natural kinship between the soldiers of the two armies endured over the 16 years he served, including the many hours he worked with American sailors on base in Vancouver Island. He still has a number of friends from the United States, but he said the trade war started by their President, Donald Trump, is now straining those relationships.