Rob, I understand your frustrations....and can say that in my lifetime I have never seen Canada so together AGAINST the USA. Even with removed\delayed tariffs etc. ..it was his Canada should be the 51st state that mobilized us ...

We know we have 20% or so of all the fresh water in the world....we have lots of mineral resources including valuable rare earths, Oil and Gas....an Arctic border ....all of which Trump covets.

Consumers here are now uniting to avoid all products made in USA. Retailers are sectioning off America made products, large firms are cancelling conventions in the USA, Snowbirds are selling and moving back. Canadians are no longer choosing US destinations as holiday destinations.

Investigations into products are going "granular" in the sense that Canadians will buy American company products made here..that employ Canadians and buy Canadian "inputs" ...but nothing actually made in the USA if that can be avoided. This weekend there was a large newspaper article that showed what product categories were Canadian or have substantiial Canadian content...and also showed product categories for which there were no Canadian subsitutes...laundry detergents for example....but give the market time. We'll source elsewhere.

We have free trade agreements with the EU and others and are negotiating with the UK and others. In the long term, we will turn away from the USA because it is a fickle partner, at the whim of its president and his cabal of plutocrats...all in it for themselves. Trump the Grifter leads by example, selling Bibles, Tokens, etc etc. Has he put any of his holdings at arm's length this term??? (yes last time he simply handed control to his kids and said he had no influence over their decisions...this time????)

All the accumulated "sins" against Canada are now on top of eachother....from pressuring us to get rid of the manufacturing what was then the world's most advanced fighter jet...the Avro Arrow....which was shut down at US insistence...they said they now had BOMARC missiles to protect us all.......and then the USA scooped all its best engineers to put a man on the moon (happen to know one of them).....to the softwood lumber dispute which the US kept losing in the courts, then simply ignored the rulings against them.....to the forced sale of our Bombardier's single aisle passenger jet to Airbus that Boeing sought an injunction against...and which they got, then lost...but not before Bombardier was forced to sell it to Airbus and became one of their successful lines, the A200. Your economic pressure tactics are nothing new to us.

Interestingly enough, the Boeing Maximum Problem Jet is the one they were seeking protection for. More deeply, the malaise that hit Boeing production was the cause of Boeing's inability to immediately compete...so they got their injunction to mess us up and give them time to build a jet that kept crashing and was grounded.

All of the USA's past sins and Trump's behaviour are being used by Canadians to mobilize our BUBBA inititive.....Back Up Big Bad America

If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop