As the Donald Trump administration in the United States continues to threaten Canadian sovereignty — including a recent suggestion that Alberta could secede from Canada and join the U.S. — Canadians, like many others in the world, finds themselves in a period of extreme uncertainty.
Trump’s continued violations of the rules-based international order means Canada can no longer rely on its partners to the same extent as it has in the past.
The world must, as Prime Minister Mark Carney recently noted, accept the current climate as it is, rather than looking to the past.