Presidents have been making the journey north from Washington, D.C., for 100 years
OTTAWA — It remains to be seen whether the president’s Irish eyes will be smiling in Ottawa this week, but Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau will almost certainly have a more pleasant get-together than the last visit by a U.S. leader to his northern neighbour.
Trudeau isn't captured in the photo. But by Trump's account, it was the Canadian prime minister's tough talk on trade during a closing news conference that caused the summit’s fragile consensus statement to fall apart just hours after the document was signed. He said in a tweet that "based on Justin's false statements at his news conference," and due to "massive" tariffs from Canada, he would no longer be endorsing the communique.
Nearly 20 years after that, George W. Bush's first official bilateral visit came with a frostier reception. The U.S. embassy in Canada’s website lists dozens of presidential visits dating back to 1923, when Warren G. Harding attended a reception in Vancouver — though the U.S. only recognized Canada as "an independent state with autonomous control over its foreign relations" in February 1927.
Despite being the host, then-prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King didn’t attend many of the key meetings. They included Richard Nixon, who, it would later be revealed, was not particularly fond of the then-prime minister: the infamous tapes of his Oval Office conversations included Nixon referring to "this son of a bitch Trudeau" in a chat with his treasury secretary.
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