The troubled U. S. -Canada relationship might be fixed by______.

The relationship between the U. S. and Canada should be as placid as Lake Ontario on a calm summer day. The border is undefended. Their peoples seem like cousins. Each is the other’s largest single trading partner. Yet there has been serious friction between the two neighbors in recent years — friction that might now be eased by the surprise election of a new Canadian Prime Minister.

More people around the world have been displaced from their homes than at any point since the end of World War II. In 2016 the number is unlikely to fall — especially in the Middle East, where the ongoing war in Syria will keep pushing refugees toward Europe, especially Germany.