Trump's Shadow and Canada's Uneven Footing

 Walking on Fractured Foundations

Calgary, AB -- While Trump's second term reaches the eleventh month, the U.S.-Canada relationship isn't strained. It's muddied, messy, costly, and an exercise in economic sabotage and national soul-searching, on both sides, but Canada is finding it the most painful. Ottawa's halls of power used to echo climate threats, now it's tariff threats that have already cost billions, but the real rot festers from within: a federal government fumbling through political quagmire, a growing sense of Western alienation to surpass that of Quebec, and a sentiment metastasizing into outright separatism. (Metastasizing. Really spreading fast, usually medical vernacular. Grok needs to be more circumspect.)

What's at stake with these incapacitated Liberals at the helm?

 

Huh? What a headline in Winnipeg!

I don't know why Canada's best-interests were swept into the dustbin in the "first 100 days" of a popular U.S. President. It seems idiotic to see Canada's best game (international trade) and the resources behind it lost to a novice negotiator in Prime Minister Mark Carney.

One victory for Canadians would be nice, even just one

 

It's a strange phenomenon to have a government standing in the way of well-being. But how strange, really? After all, people stand behind governments doing the strangest things. Take war. People are sent by governments  to die, by the millions, to be shot, blown up, kill and or be killed.