Professor of Child and Youth Studies Tony Volk wrote a piece recently published in the Globe and Mail about how to deal with U.S. President Donald Trump behaving like a bully.

He writes:

“The good news is Mr. Trump isn’t motivated by a deep ideology like some past demagogues. He’s a transactional bully with transparent interests. These aren’t the easiest traits in a neighbour, but research argues they make for very strong and predictable pathways for behavioural influence.

In public, Canadian political and business leaders should treat Mr. Trump’s desire for Canada as the 51st state as a compliment, praise his unheralded capacity for change, marvel at his political survivability and blame policies we don’t like on people around him. Project credible strength, but don’t personally insult the President or leave him without an off-ramp that preserves (or better yet, strengthens) his ego.”

Continue reading the full article on the Globe and Mail website.