In the border town of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, "Canada first" mixes with a fear that the cozy relations with Calais will change.

For the first time in history a programme was transmitted across the Channel, when viewers saw the town of Calais en fete, with a torchlight procession, dancing in the square and a firework display.

But here within a two-hour drive from Calais’s Le Shuttle terminal was a buzzing university city with the largest Gothic cathedral in France, some excellent restaurants and museums, lively ...

On the menu, among other dishes, was chicken from Licques, a town in Pas-de-Calais. "It's great that we can highlight a product from Pas-de-Calais," the chef told the Licques Poultry Farm at the time.