David Frum

So why should we think about yours?

No, it is not at all an empty threat.

But it's necessary to understand what the threat is.

It's not that Canada is going to become a Chinese ally.

Geography is geography.

I spent a lot of time on this question.

The Canadian mood has historically been, the United States is this intimate partner.

And the Americans sometimes drag Canada into adventures where Canada would rather not be, like a trade war with China over electric cars.

But when they say go, you have to go, because they do so much for you.

And there's a kind of integration at the highest levels of government.

I think one of the things that Carney was saying is it's not we're breaking off from the United States to realign with China.

He's saying the way I think about the 21st century is there are going to be three superpowers, the United States, China, and India.

And the United States is a little more benign than China and India, but not dramatically more benign.

And so our goal is we'll always be closer to the United States than China and India, but we have to have options in a way that Canadians never thought about optionality before.

The Indians carried out an assassination on Canadian soil.

Admittedly, it's somebody who deserved it, okay?

Allegedly deserved it.

So Canada has a bad history of turning its eye to diaspora terror fundraisers.

There's a deal.

If you're a Tamil, if you're a Sikh, if you're Hezbollah, and you fundraise, if you don't conduct any operations in Canada, but you raise money in Canada for operations elsewhere, Canada will sort of look away.