The Government of Canada can't act towards foreign leaders on the basis of anyone's personal hatred of him., let alone on that of a political opinion writer.

Far from flouting the law as Mr. Saunders claims, Donald Trump acted fully within his lawful powers in firing James Comey. Trump's action doesn't put America's justice system at risk; Trump's risk is all political. And that's the point: the Government of Canada should remain neutral on the internal political affairs of our allies.

Barrack Obama, and George W. Bush before him, acted on secret legal opinions written for them by their own White House attorneys. And they didn't just fire some Washington bureaucrat, but tortured and killed people- including Americans and innocent civilians- in distant lands. Mr. Saunder's outrage over Trump's latest move isn't born out of fact, it's personal.