Jivani is longtime friends with U.S. Vice-President JD Vance
Conservative MP Jamil Jivani says he met with Trump administration officials on Wednesday as he visits the United States capital on an independent trip billed as an effort to improve Canada-U.S. trade relations.
Jivani said U.S. President Donald Trump gave him a message to share with fellow Canadians.
“Productive meetings today with the White House and State Department. The President asked me to pass along a message: ‘Tell the Canadians I love them.’ I’ll have much more to say later,” the Ontario MP said in a post on X.
We need to show we don’t care what he says or thinks.
Chantel Herbert had an apt summary of this whole escapade, calling it “political kindergarten”. As if the issues between the US and Canada were small enough to be smoothed over because JD and Jivani were friends. Two political officials who have no sway in either of their respective government’s. Not only that, he went down to the states on his own volition, without the request of the government of Canada or even at the request of the leader of the opposition.