🇨🇦 What Trump's tinkering around with water at the Canadian border could be about

The sharpest part is not Trump signing off on mining near waters that drain into Canada. It is that Canada’s border water regime apparently rests on political goodwill, weak enforcement, and an anachronistic commission that can do little unless both sides politely ask. That is not sovereignty. That is managerial fantasy dressed up as diplomacy, as reported.

The snippet all but admits the real problem: Ottawa built a century-old system that assumes elites will always play nice, while Washington treats every file as leverage. Trump may not need to blow up the 1909 treaty to expose how flimsy Canada’s position is. He only has to remind everyone that our ruling class outsourced national interest to cross-border consensus panels with no teeth. And when those same people sermonize about rules-based order, climate, and responsible governance, remember this file. If your water security depends on goodwill from whoever sits in the White House, you do not have a durable strategy. You have complacency with a bilingual press release.

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