🇨🇦 Donald Trump has already seized one Canadian asset: our attention

The funniest part is not Trump’s map. It’s Canada’s expert class acting shocked that symbols, threats, and economic coercion matter in geopolitics. After years of reducing sovereignty to a branding exercise, they suddenly remember borders, leverage, and national interest when a U.S. president starts trolling about the 51st state. As reported, official Canada mostly shrugged while academics debated whether to ignore him, decode him, or politely absorb the insult.

That shrug is the real story. A country trained by Trudeau-era managerial nonsense to worship post-national platitudes has very little instinct left for hard power. So now the advice is civility, restraint, and not letting the bigger power set the emotional tempo. Translation: be quiet and hope Washington gets bored. Maybe if Ottawa spent less time on DEI sermons and global status-signalling, and more time acting like a serious sovereign state, this kind of humiliation would land differently. Attention is not the asset we lost first. Credibility was.

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