Barack Obama's former ambassador to Canada says U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to order the killing of a top Iranian general represents the latest instance of the mercurial U.S. president throwing allies such as Canada under buses.
Ex-envoy Bruce Heyman says the killing of Iranian Maj.-Gen. Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. drone near Baghdad's airport last week elevates that disregard of American allies to a new level.
Iraq is ordering all international troops out of the country because it views the American attack on its soil as a violation of Iraqi sovereignty. Heyman, a Democrat, has been a fierce critic of Trump, and has emerged as a vocal booster of Canada-U.S. relations during the Republican president's rocky term in office.
Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne appeared to be doing just that on Monday, with a series of phone calls with his Iraqi and Jordanian counterparts.
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