After several months of uncharacteristic jingoism, Canadians have come around to the idea that there are practical limits in politics, what with Prime Minister Mark Carney having recently removed certain retaliatory tariffs against the United States. In retrospect, it’s evident that for many Canadian voters, the emotional satisfaction of responding with “elbows up” rhetoric to what they perceived as U.S. President Donald Trump’s high-handedness took precedent over any analysis of their real interests in the matter.
You could see reality set in as commentators patiently explained that all this really was for the best. Of course, from the start, the odds that Carney would capitulate in this way might have been conservatively estimated at around 100 per cent.
