OTTAWA -- When then-U.S. President George W. Bush took office in 2001, he chose Mexico instead of Canada for his first foreign visit, and relations with Canada suffered throughout his presidency. To heap the decline of Canada-U.S. relations entirely at the feet of his decision to go south rather than north is overly simplistic. Instead, taken in retrospect, it was a harbinger of a polarization between the two largest trading partners in the world.
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