🇨🇦 A tale of two U.S. ambassadors: Hoekstra and Heyman see Canada very differently

The sharpest part is not that two ambassadors have different styles. It is that Canada is still reduced to reading tea leaves from Washington while a trade war escalates and a sitting U.S. ambassador flirts with 51st state rhetoric as if our sovereignty is some cross-border joke. One former envoy praises Canada because it suits his current business interests, while the current one publicly acts like contempt is diplomacy. That is the level of respect Ottawa gets, as reported.

The numbers in the snippet say more than the PR ever will. Canada takes 38 per cent of Michigan exports and 32 per cent of Ohio exports, yet the line pushed is that the U.S. does not need Canada. Right. The real lesson here is brutal and simple: if your political class is weak, foreign officials stop treating your country like a sovereign nation and start treating it like a client territory with hurt feelings. Trudeau-era decline did not begin this contempt, but it sure trained the world to expect no spine from Ottawa.

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