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After I pushed back on the passport request, they offered the option of posting my Bluesky handle to Twitter and now the "imposter" label is gone. So you can be certain this isn't nearly funny enough to be a parody account.

...and they apparently want a copy of my passport (!) to take the impersonation label off. I dunno man. Maybe I should just wait for the next Twitter clone (maybe even one that gets the domain suffix down to a single dot.)

The one thing everyone agreed on was crediting Freeland for pushing Canada's concede-nothing-until-the-end approach to negotiations. Which ultimately left most of NAFTA intact.

There was also a weird sub-debate about which category Bob Lighthizer was in. In his own memoirs, he says he and Freeland had a "friendly" rapport even though they clashed at the bargaining table. He also subsequently had dinner with her entire family at her house, so.

A few people seemed pretty determined to downplay her role in the talks. Others were even more determined to affirm that she really was Canada's point person. At least some of this appears to be purely personality-based: people who felt put off vs. others who really got along with her.

One thing that stood out in reporting this is how polarised people who worked with her in the negotiations seem to be about her. There is a fair-enough debate about whether Freeland/Team Canada's hardball strategy was correct. But this seemed to go beyond that.