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The United States is one step closer to sending a new ambassador to Canada — finally. It’s been an unusually long delay of more than two years since the U.S. had a top envoy in place in Ottawa.
A key committee of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday advanced dozens of nominations to be ambassador to Canada, including that of telecom executive David Cohen.
Cohen was a top fundraiser for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, and his nomination received little opposition when
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