🇨🇦 Fifty percent tariffs, and Ottawa still calls this smart diplomacy
The sharp fact is not the 50% U.S. tariff. It is that Canada spent years acting like a post-national NGO with a flag, and now seems shocked when Washington treats us like leverage instead of a respected partner. After Trudeau hollowed out energy, industry, and border credibility, and with Mark Carney’s brand of Davos-approved managerial genius hovering over everything, Canada is left begging for access to the only market our elites never bothered to diversify from, as reported.
This is what sovereignty erosion looks like in real time. Endless virtue signalling abroad, mass population growth at home, anti-business regulation everywhere, and then absolute panic when the Americans play hardball. The ruling class sold Canadians the fantasy that globalism would make borders, production, and national interest obsolete. Reality just sent a 50% invoice. A serious country would rebuild domestic capacity, secure its resource base, and negotiate from strength. Trudeau’s Canada outsourced strength, imported dependency, and called it progress.
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