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The ink hadn’t even dried on U.S. President Donald Trump’s coal-friendly, environment-busting executive order Tuesday when the hand wringing began in Canada.

“Trump’s bid to reverse climate agenda puts pressure on Ottawa,” declared the Globe and Mail headline, as talk shows across the country put pundits in chairs to debate the question: Should Trudeau slow down Canada’s own climate agenda to avoid becoming uncompetitive with the U.S.?

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What’s frightening here, of course, is the prospect of Canada following the lead of a breathtakingly ignorant U.S. president who has said man-made climate change is a hoax.

But having said that, there is still the issue that our largest trading partner is our largest trading partner, even if it is, on the issue of climate change at least, led by an ignoramus.

Should we reverse course and start heading backwards to match the regressive tide of Trump environmental policies that would resurrect coal and ignore global warming?