Canada is having a moment -- and the world is finally paying attention

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It's a best-of-times, worst-of-times scenario for Canada on the global stage.

To get the bad out of the way, its most important ally — the United States — has grown increasingly antagonistic, with renewed tariff threats and talk of annexation coming from the White House. On the upside, Canada is signaling it can stand more firmly on its own. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has identified a "rupture" in North American integration and is moving his country in a more self-sufficient direction — both economically and politically. There's a recognition that Canada and the US will always be deeply intertwined — Americans aren't suddenly going to stop watching "Heated Rivalry" or "Schitt's Creek," and the Toronto Maple Leafs aren't going to stop traveling south of the border — but some level of unwinding may now be unavoidable.

"Every country has to take care of itself," says Tony Stillo, director of Canada Economics at Oxford Economics, "and Canada's putting Canada first."

In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, Carney struck a determined, defiant tone toward the US and a decades-old rules-based international order that, in his view, is now falling apart. "Canadians know that our old comfortable assumptions that our geography and alliance memberships automatically conferred prosperity and security — that assumption is no longer valid," he said. In turn, he's made the choice to take on "the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish it to be."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-having-moment-mdash-world-093301571.html

Heckuva job Trumpy