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Canada has always been the polite, quiet powerhouse that punches way above its weight geo-politically, and it is doing it again under the impressive leadership chops of its current Prime Minister, Mark Carney.

It’s been a longtime coming, but, finally the majority of Americans are realizing the mistake of electing Trump with a majority in the last election.

When push came to shove, Trump did what he has become quite well-known for, he chickened out (TACO - Trump Always Chickens Out!). Trump, over the last few weeks kept doubling down when people and nations questioned the wisdom of such a radically damaging move which would have dire consequences for Western unity and post WWII hegemony.

It’s bizarre, but the Western allies and alliances are brought to an existential crisis NOT by adversaries or enemies, but their biggest former partner and ally, the United States of America - or as it will be known from here on out, big bad America, led by a true bizarro, Donald J. Trump.

Dear readers, after the Christmas holiday season, and travelling from Toronto to Vancouver, and back, seeing one part of this vast country to the other, where everything looked relatively normal, except it was not, as during that time, the stability of the established world-order, since WWII, continued to deteriorate.

Over the last few decades, particularly from the time when Ronald Reagan was President in the United States (in the 1980s), and Brian Mulroney was Canada’s Prime Minister (also in the 1980s), their personal rapport and their political and economic ideological affinity resulted in the first ‘Free Trade Agreement’ between Canada and the United States.

The largest protest in American history was a joke to wannabe king Donald Trump, and his followers. A Joke!! Those who turned out to protest were of the old America, which believed in decency, non-violence and the Constitutional right to protest as a fundamental American ‘right’, signifying the quintessential act of freedom of every American.

Photo from Week.com opinion piece: Trump for king.

Canada announced that it will recognize a Palestinian State ahead of the 80th United Nations General Assembly meeting of Nations this week in New York. It is joined by the UK, Australia and Portugal, and will be joined by other major Nations.

After months of creating chaos in the world economies by his constantly shifting-mind, on what he thought appropriate tariffs should be on various countries trading with the US, Trump has decided which country should be paying what in terms of trade tariffs.

For decades, especially since WWII, America enjoyed the world’s acquiescence to its leading position in economic and military might, its moral high-ground position as the world’s leading democracy promoting virtuous values such as equality, freedom, free-speech, human rights and justice for all. This liberal and democratic leading position was in contrast to the other major but dark and draconian super-powers of communist USSR (Russia) and China, who led other world autocraci

For our American friends, a very brief history of Canada, plus, a modest list of Canada’s assets, and contributions, as, some Americans can be woefully uninformed about their giant northern neighbour, in spite of the fact that Canada as a country (not as a trading block like the EU), is one of America’s largest trading partner.