Trudeau goes to Washington, and finds that Canada is mostly an afterthought for the U.S.

The helicopter buzzing overhead was just one sign during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s trip to Washington of a tough new reality Canadians face.

Trudeau’s failure to persuade Americans to ease up on Canada in a landmark electric-vehicle plan capped a visit that served a long, loud wake-up call to this new reality.

Former U.S. president Donald Trump’s protectionist impulses were no aberration: this era is vastly different from the one that produced the 1965 Auto Pact and spurred decades of Canada-U.S. economic integration.