We're moving on.
Mark Carney is not anti-American. He has been careful, throughout a year of provocation, to make that clear. He wants a functional relationship with the United States. He understands the depth of the integration, the shared history, the genuine common interests.
But he is also a man who spent forty years reading risk. Who governed two central banks through crises. Who sat in the rooms where systems failed and learned exactly what systemic failure looks like from the inside.
And what he sees, looking south, is a country that has decided its allies are leverage points rather than partners. That treaties are bargaining chips. That the relationships it spent 80 years building are liabilities to be renegotiated rather than assets to be protected.
He has responded the only way a serious leader can: by building resilience. By finding new partners. By spending what it takes to be sovereign. By telling the truth in public, on the world stage, in front of everyone.
Canada has changed. It is stronger, more independent, more strategically agile, and less reliant on American goodwill than at any point in living memory. Its approval ratings at home — 66%, among the highest ever recorded in Canadian history — tell you that Canadians believe in what he is building.
The question is not whether Canada has changed. The question is whether America is paying attention.
Link: Canada has changed and you're not going to like what is happening