"This is a dog barking."

This is how the psychiatrist, to whom I was forced to turn way back in 1982, described B's ex.  It was excellent advice back then, because you couldn't deal with her on any level, and holds with the latest nonsense from Chrystia Freeland who has managed to get herself frozen out of the latest round of NAFTA talks.  That's right, the US has either refused outright, or completely ignored, her demands to be at the table when Lighthizer sits down with Mexico to begin a new round.

Not long ago, I laughed as I watched my four-year-old granddaughter stand under their new dog -- a large 'Labernard' -- and shake her finger at it while sternly saying, "No Lady, don't do that."  It was a scream and I am sure that's exactly what the hapless and clueless Freeland tries to do with Lighthizer.  Except it didn't work and only served to aggravate him.  Apparently, he has a dislike of her and was constantly irritated with her tactics and habit of going behind his back on Capitol Hill, which she and her officials did constantly.

How dumb can you get?  The US needs to get a deal done with Mexico and obviously, with Freeland barking at the table, knew it couldn't.  So it's pens down for Canada at this point.  Frankly, I'm with Lighthizer when it comes to finding Freeland hugely irritating and tic-ridden.  What with her hair-flipping, constant sniffing and hideous cheap pearls, I can't bear to watch her, let alone have to sit and actually listen to her nonsense.  I think it's an Eastern-European-inferiority-complex thing and I have to deal with a couple of those in the Y locker room who are always aggressive and pushy. 

Trudeau Sr.'s concept of the "elephant living next to a mouse" obviously hasn't caught with her, just as didn't her attempts to bully Russia a while back.  Now this Ukrainian woman is actually banned from Russia. Can you imagine the stupidity of a PM appointing a Foreign Minister who is banned from one of the great superpowers in the world?!  When he had a cabinet shuffle a while ago, he should have booted her into something like tourism, but oh, I forgot!  He's a bona-fida "feminist" and had to keep her there to prove a point.  Never mind Canada's interests, let's "prove a point".

Sophie must be advising him under the covers.  Duh.