New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has firmly informed President Donald Trump, in the polite Canadian way, that his country is not for sale. If only someone had made that declaration on behalf of Canada’s original Major League Baseball team, the Montreal Expos.
Twenty years before Trump floated the idea of Canada becoming America’s 51st state, the Expos became America’s 29th baseball team, moving to Washington, D.C., to become the Nationals in 2005. That left the Toronto Blue Jays as the sport’s sole north-of-the-border outpost. In Trump’s dream world of wiping out what he calls the “artificially drawn line” separating the countries, Toronto would be a U.