Governor Paul LePage may be seen as a lame duck here in Maine — where he’s alienated many of his legislative allies, betrayed the state’s sacrifices in the Civil War, and attacked fellow Republican Sen. Susan Collins — but in Canada, he’s seen as a potential savior.
A savior if he can help convince President Trump not to ditch NAFTA, that is. As I reported in this week’s Maine Sunday Telegram, Canadian officials — and New Brunswick ones especially — are hoping LePage has some pull with the mercurial president. Read on for details.
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.