🇨🇦 Canada still begging while Washington shrugs

The sharpest detail here is not Trump blustering, it is his own trade rep publicly cooling the fantasy. Jamieson Greer says Canada is stuck at an impasse, with issues quite difficult to resolve, while Ottawa keeps selling the public a fairy tale about good-faith talks and cordial conversations, as reported. Translation: Mark Carney and Maninder Sidhu are smiling for cameras while the Americans treat Canada like a client state that can be squeezed at will.

This is what post-national management looks like. Decades of elite worship of free trade, continental integration, and global supply chains left Canada dangerously dependent on one market, with steel, aluminum, and autos exposed the second Washington decides America First actually means America First. Our ruling class lectures Canadians about sovereignty, then builds an economy with no leverage, no redundancy, and no spine. Ottawa spent years chasing climate vanity, DEI bureaucracy, and mass-immigration GDP optics while our industrial base hollowed out. Now the bill arrives, and the same people want applause for merely standing ready to negotiate.

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