🇨🇦 No talks, just therapy sessions

Dominic LeBlanc is now bragging that Canada is still having conversations with U.S. officials despite there being no actual trade negotiations. Translation: Ottawa has been reduced to hallway chatter while pretending access is strategy. The minister says the file is alive because people are still talking, as reported. That is the Trudeau-era foreign policy model in one sentence: vibes, optics, and a smile for the cameras while Canada drifts.

This is what happens when a government spends years posturing for Davos applause, kneecapping energy, and eroding national leverage at home. You do not get respect in Washington by lecturing the world on climate, censorship, and DEI compliance while your own economy is strangled by bureaucracy and dependency. LeBlanc wants Canadians to confuse contact with influence. Sorry, no. A sovereign country negotiates from strength. A hollowed-out managerial state celebrates that the phone still rings.

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