If Canada wants to preserve its sovereignty as the American Empire embraces naked assertion of national interest unbound from international lawl, courting China is just about the most retarded thing you could do.

The theory behind this is that expanded trade with China will insulate the Canadian economy from US tariffs. This is stupid. China accounts for 4% of Canadian exports; the US accounts for around 70-75%. That all makes sense if you look at a map.

Canada doesn't have the port facilities to ship energy to China in any appreciable quantity. Canada isn't going to build those facilities in a timely fashion, not without walking all over the First Nations and the climate lunatics, both of whom Carney and his Liberal Party are enthusiastically beholden to. Even assuming we did build those facilities and start shipping oil to China in vast quantities, it would be the easiest thing in the world for the US Navy to interdict those tankers, and there would be precisely nothing the all but nonexistent Royal Canadian Navy could do about that but cry.

Meanwhile, Turbo-America is reasserting the Monroe Doctrine, specifically in order to eliminate Chinese influence from the Western hemisphere. Cozying up to Beijing at this point is a bad look, and really not worth whatever value we get from a few thousand shitty Chinese EVs no one wants.

The best strategy for Canada to preserve its sovereignty during this crisis is the same strategy that it has successfully used since the War of 1812: 1) be well-defended, 2) be friendly. There is no possibility of Canada actually winning a war with the US, but it IS possible to make such a war difficult enough that the blood isn't worth the prize. At the same time, if the country is a well-governed, cooperative, reliable ally, then there's no particular advantage to annexation.

Instead, Ottawa has settled on the most retarded of all possible strategies: being 1) defenceless and 2) belligerent. The Canadian Armed Forces is a joke, and while Carney has made noises about building them up again, this effort is sabotaged by DEI bullshit, and the modest increase in budget is nowhere near the tripling that would be required to match US Department of War spending on a per capita, GDP-adjusted basis. Especially when you're starting from way, way, WAY behind. Meanwhile, Ottawa takes every opportunity to antagonize the Yanks: courting foreign adversaries Washington wants out of the hemisphere; flooding the country with third-world biotrash; letting the real estate market be used as a massive money laundering scheme; winking at fentanyl labs; shrugging at foreign influence penetrating every level of government. The Trump administration looks at this mess, and concludes that 1) Canada would be very easily annexed and 2) the country is so poorly run that it would probably be more profitable to govern directly.

Oh and as all of this is going on the Laurentians lose no opportunity to remind anyone who will listen that Canada Is Built On Stolen Native Land, from which it follows that our official national position is that our sovereignty is completely illegitimate.

The country is in the hands of delusional traitorous clowns at precisely the worst possible historical moment, and to make it all the more absurd, they've successfully wrapped themselves in the flag to such a degree that any criticism of their suicidal policies is called unpatriotic Maple MAGA by the legions of trained clapping seals comprising the country's delirious overburden of CBC-addled baby boomers.