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Greg McClinchey

Greg McClinchey is a former Parliament Hill staffer of 25 years and North Huron (Ontario) municipal councillor who now works for the treaty-based Great Lakes Fishery Commission as a legislative liaison in Canada and the United States.

Broader lessons to be learned from our quiet and off-the-side diplomacy

Opinion | BY GREG MCCLINCHEY | July 22, 2020
Richard Nixon and Pierre Trudeau, pictured in Trudeau's office on April 14, 1972. In 1969, prime Trudeau described Canada/U.S. relations in a way that remains relevant even today. He said, 'Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered … one is affected by every twitch and grunt.' Photograph courtesy of U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Opinion | BY GREG MCCLINCHEY | July 22, 2020
Opinion | BY GREG MCCLINCHEY | July 22, 2020
Richard Nixon and Pierre Trudeau, pictured in Trudeau's office on April 14, 1972. In 1969, prime Trudeau described Canada/U.S. relations in a way that remains relevant even today. He said, 'Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered … one is affected by every twitch and grunt.' Photograph courtesy of U.S. National Archives and Records Administration