This tariff war is so fucking stupid, and our headless government insists on making things worse with retaliatory measures that seem specifically tailored to piss Trump off despite our lack of actual leverage like singling out red states for countermeasures or threatening to shut off the power to northern states. Here is a map of all of Canada's pipelines:
You will notice that literally fucking NOTHING goes to eastern Canada without first going through the US, meaning that if Trudeau and Ford are genuinely sufficiently braindead to believe their own hype and turn off the taps to New York or Michigan or wherever - the Orange Man can plunge everything east of Alberta into frigid darkness in the dead of winter with a snap of his fingers. Importing foreign oil & gas to compensate for the Albertan taps being shut off would be both more expensive, and I don't think we actually have the infrastructure to get such resources out from our ports anyway. We are in this situation because of decades of braindead Liberal economic & green policy:
Harper had plans to build the first energy pipeline that directly connected Alberta's resources to the eastern provinces, but guess who scrapped that shit to appease the green lobby & First Nations race grifters almost as soon as he got in.
Then there's the real and, I find, dangerously understated possibility of a Wexit. If Alberta secedes due to how much more heavily integrated their economy is with the Americans relative to even the rest of the provinces (again, see the pipelines map above) as well as their litany of historical grievances against exploitation by the Laurentian elites out east, we're completely fucked, and geography dictates they'll probably drag the rest of the west along with them while they're at it too. Canada has traditionally maintained a huge and well-equipped army relative to its population precisely to deter this sort of scenario, but the CAF has been allowed to rot into nothingness since the end of the Cold War and shipping most of our heavy weapons to Ukraine hasn't helped at all with that, such that an American incursion in support of Albertan secessionists tomorrow would most realistically not resemble Ukraine 2022 but Crimea 2014: handfuls of demoralized and poorly equipped Canadian troops in notoriously ill-maintained, barely functioning 20-30+ year old APCs and tanks (we still use a lot of M113s and Leopard 24As actually, efforts to upgrade have been slow & spotty like everything else under this cursed government) putting up token resistance before defecting or surrendering
en masse to Polite OCP Men and their local sympathizers, no matter the orders from their largely un-battle-tested and DEI-poisoned officers.
And that's all before getting into how Canada realistically cannot find enough trade partners to compensate for a loss of American trade on anything resembling the good terms we had with the Americans previously (American trade represents 77% of Canadian exports and 63% of our imports, but only 18% of American exports and 14% of their imports). Yeah I'm sure Red China will be real happy to buy Canadian lumber at a loss out of the goodness of their hearts, instead of bending us over a barrel and exploiting the absolute shit out of Canada's resources at the lowest possible cost to themselves if we're dumb enough to open up (even more than we already have) to them.
God damn, I sure wish we had a government that didn't spend the past decade (and especially the 2021-24 period when they thought he'd never come back) shittalking the Bad Orange Man at every turn and which is now willing to burn what's left of this country to the ground in an attempt to avoid giving him the appearance of a W. They have done basically everything conceivable to make sure it's not possible for Canada to survive this century as an independent country, truly proof positive that you can build something cool over centuries and have it all be destroyed in a decade. And as I have said before, their efforts to appeal to a sense of Canadian nationalism are genuinely comical in light of their entire domestic record until a few weeks ago, you couldn't pay me to believe such dedicated globalists as Trudeau, Carney, etc. care a whit for Canada or see it as anything but a WEF economic/resource extraction zone.