Kanadier sind nicht mehr sauer auf Amerika. Wir sind verletzt, misstrauisch und ziehen weiter

You know when you’re really close to your next neighbours. For years, you’ve been friends, helping each other, barbequing together, and attending your kids‘ hockey and little league together.
But underneath this happy scene, you’ve been aware that your neighbour friends have a testy marriage. So far, they’ve been able to keep it pretty much to themselves, but lately, you have started to hear their arguments get louder.
Then, one day, they take it outside, throwing pool noodles and barbecue tongs at each other. It gets really escalated, and they are throwing dangerous things at each other. Some of these things fly over the fence, and one even hits your dog. That’s enough. Your neighbours aren’t safe anymore. You start to forge closer relationships with neighbours across the road. The fighting parent’s children become stressed and at times are asking to come and stay til their parents settle down. You ponder on the idea of calling children’s services.
But you do realise that you must leave your friends to their own devices til they either divorce or find a couple’s therapist.
This is where Canada is at, watching their neighbours duke it out and hoping they don’t inflict too much damage to others in the process. But we’re moving on nevertheless. Having coffee with the neighbours to the other side and hoping for the best.

I’m not hurt, I just have no use for the and think they, as a country, are garbage and not worth working with. I’m not hurt at all, they’ve always been garbage.

I think the main thing is that when Trump won in 2016, most people wrote it off as a one off fluke and thought when Biden won in 2020 that it was a permanent return to normalcy in Canada U.S relations. Now we know that this could potentially happen every 4-12 years when a Republican presidential candidate gets elected.

I think if polled most Canadians would want Canada-U.S relations to return to how they were under Biden or ideally prior to 2016, but at this point it’s a trust issue and the U.S will have to get it’s house in order before it can be something America’s allies take for granted again. Basically the rest of the liberal-democratic order outside of the U.S has to collectively pull more of it’s own weight as a stopgap measure for the foreseeable future as long a similar situation is remotely possible again.