reasonable deal that helps Trump (US atm) while helping Canada.

The trade situation was inequitable before Trump.

Your country’s general “pile on mentality” against the US when Trump was elected was sad, but not surprising to anyone who has watched the shift to the left and socialism within your country. This socialism has been artificially supported in good part at the expense of these trade deals as well as the fact that your country enjoyed an economy essentially free in realistic terms of spending on defense.

Trump is Trump, but Canada chose the in your face approach to him. Further, Trudeau and later Carney went out of their way to irritate him for political gain.

Well, Canada has some choices to make.

You argue that the US has changed after more than a half century of leading. But you ignore two big realities in saying this:
1) Canada has shifted far to the left in comparison and along with the UK and parts of Europe has moved away from free world country policies.
2) The US held that “leader” role you mentioned where everyone followed because we were paying the tab and giving these other countries economic goodies. But the debt has risen and the tab s coming do.

The real questions are:
Can Canada exist without the artificial support of another country as it is presently set up?
- almost assuredly not in its present state w/out US (or China) support).
Can Carney swallow his pride for the sake of a country he leads? His work w the Bank of England was a mess. His ties w GS and the globalists is thick. I doubt it.

The answer is to accept the deal they did a few days ago before backing away. You elected a guy who is only loosely Canadian. I hope he doesn’t have other agendas higher than your own.

But I am sure they will blame Trump.