Trump’s next goal? Canada to think about Washington

After the Canadian Steel, aluminumand Potash, Energy Perhaps CarsUS President Donald Trump may have a new goal: a scholarship related to Anda.

The upper cache, who is studying Canada and the United States now, finds that they are threatened with an executive order signed by the president Last Friday.

Trump has ordered a number of eliminated institutions – to be eliminated as much as possible, to the minimum of its legal functions.

It includes that list organized Who oversees the voice of America, which is related to Canada, the Wilson Center, which focuses on the institutes Canadaand Mexicoand China and Russia.

Its institute in Canada is a long -term destination for the selection of Canadian news makers visiting Washington: it offers a place for news conferences and discussions, more than one building from the White House.

Prime MinisterThe Prime Minister, opposition politicians and civil service staff at the Canada Institute spoke at the Wilson Center. Zamat also presented, including the late late Alberta, Prime Minister Jim Berntez while working on book About energy policy.

“This is definitely a shock to the regime,” said Laura Dawson, a commercial expert in Canada and the United States. Once led Institute.

“It is the only thinking tank in Canada in the world. There is nothing else like it.”

The organization is now scrambling to assess the effects of Trump’s order; You should compare her plans to the White House by the end of this week.

It is not quite clear what this means.

Trump’s order requires organizations to reduce their activities to jobs dedicated to law. Dawson says this may mean less than to keep her small museum, protect some Woodro Wilson’s presidential leaves, and organize 20 fellowships annually through the entire organization.

But the origin 1968 Law The creation of the center does not mention its various treaties. In addition, the organization was able to reach several floors in A. Federal buildingIn addition to nearly a third of its financing, 15 million dollars The United States comes from the federal government.

The head of the Wilson Center issued a message on Monday saying that his team was making plans to comply with this.

Donation

Mark GreenAnd he is a member of the former Republican Republican Congress, he is now the head of party tanks, behind a democratic.

He says the statute allows the Wilson Center to accept donations than individuals and institutions, and that donations are more important than ever.

Green called the flow of support after Trump announced the satisfaction.

“When Congress approved Woodro Wilson’s memorial law for 1968, he gave us a special charter and a delegation to symbolize” the fruitful relationship between the world of learning and the world of public affairs. ”

“As many of you said in your communication with us, this work-from analysis and programming that depends on scholarships-was not more important.”

Dawson described it as amazing that a country like Canada, closely related to the United States, has only one thinking tank with a full -time process that studies the bilateral relationship, and may disappear now.

“Canada is confused about its ability to hear its voice in Washington,” she said. “The Canada Institute was not a pressure organized. He did not choose the sides and did not choose the favorite. I only provided a place, and a space for Canadians and Americans to speak with each other.”