After Canadian Steel, aluminumPresent Kali, energy and possibly CarsUS President Donald Trump may have a new goal: a Canadian scholarship.
A top thinking factory that examines Canada-US relationships Last Friday.
Trump ordered a number of institutions that are equipped – eliminated as far as possible and is reduced to their legal functions.
This list contains the organization This monitors the Voice of America and of particular relevance for Canada the Wilson Center on which institutes have concentrated CanadaPresent MexicoPresent China And Russia.
The Canada Institute is a long -term goal of the choice for Canadian newsmakers who visit Washington: It offers an event location for news conferences and discussions, a little more than one block from the White House.
Prime ministerPremiere, opposition politicians and civil servants spoke at the Canada Institute of the Wilson Center. It has also provided scholarships, including the late Alberta Prime Minister Jim Prentice while working on his Book About energy policy.
“This is definitely a shock for the system” Led once The institute.
“It is the only Canada-US monument in the world. There is nothing comparable.”
The organization is now trying to evaluate the effects of the Trumps order. It must report its plans to the White House by the end of this week.
It is not entirely clear what this means.
Trump’s command calls on the organizations to reduce their activities to statutory functions. According to Dawson, this could only mean how to maintain the small museum, to secure some of Woodrow Wilson’s presidential papers and to organize 20 scholarships a year throughout the organization.
But the original 1968 law So that the center has created, does not mention its various institutes. In addition, the organization receives access to several floors in A Federal buildingPlus almost a third of its financing, 15 million dollars USD comes from the federal government.
The head of the Wilson Center published a letter on Monday, in which he said that his team had made plans to comply with the order.
Call for donations
Mark GreenA former Republican congress member is now president of the cross -party thinking factory that follows democrat.
He says that the law enables the Wilson Center to accept donations from individuals and institutions, and that donations are more important than ever.
Green called the support of the support after Trump’s announcement was gratifying.
“When the Congress adopted the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act from 1968, we gave us a special charter and a mandate to symbolize and strengthen the fruitful relationship between the world of learning and the world of public affairs,” he wrote in a letter to the followers.
“As many of them said to us in their public relations work, this work-from scholarship analyzes and programming-Noch was never more important.”
Dawson stunned that a country like Canada, which is so closely connected to the United States, only has a thought factory with a full -time company that studies the bilateral relationship and that it could now disappear.
“Canada is really lost in his ability to hear his voice in Washington,” she said. “The Canada Institute was not a lobby organization. It did not select any pages and did not select any favorites. It only offered an event location and a place for Canadians and Americans to talk to each other.”
