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.

Thousands of young men and women marched through the streets of Lima to protest the government’s new youth labor law that eliminates some labor rights for workers ages 18 to 24. This was the fourth march against the bill since it was passed last month, with protesters claiming the law turns many young people into cheap labor. Under the new law, young workers would not get severance and would be entitled to half the vacation pay given to their older counterparts.