Whole lot of non-canadians opinionating on how we should jump on a grenade for them.
Seriously. I particularly love how American liberals/progressives/democratic socialists/whatever-they-call-themselves-now suddenly think they're in a position where they can tell other countries what they should be doing. They were too inept to stop Trump -- to say nothing of winning the Senate, the House, most state races, and generally stopping decade after decade of rightward drift -- but now, of course, they're such strategic geniuses, they know what liberals in other countries should be doing.
Equally obnoxious are non-Americans who act as if Canada can just start throwing caution to the wind and insulting Trump loudly, without fear of repercussion. It's easy to talk big when you're separated by an ocean, but when 75% of your trade is with your neighbour, sometimes it pays to know when to be a little circumspect. You can certainly argue that Canada shouldn't have so much of its economy tied up with one trading partner, but a) that trading partner is the largest economy in the world, b) the U.S. is Canada's only neighbour, with the rest of the world either an ocean or half a continent away, and c) it's reality, and insisting it should be otherwise means ignoring the last sixty years of North American economic development.
Besides Canada's position on climate change and the U.S. couldn't be any more clear. If Trudeau's statement wasn't obvious enough, you had our Foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland, give a speech a few days ago that essentially said Canada would work with other countries in a post-U.S. hegemony world, and you had the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna,
interviewed by the New York Times about how Canada is shifting its focus on fighting climate change to working with the individual states. I don't know how much more clearly they can spell it out. I know that doesn't work for people desperately wishing that the
Love, Actually press conference was real life, but that's not how the world actually works.
