Pivoting toward China means embracing an authoritarian dictatorship that threatens Canadian sovereignty through election meddling, secret police stations and Arctic incursions. China has proven itself the most unreliable trading partner, repeatedly disrupting canola exports and using industrial espionage to destroy companies like Nortel. Trading American democracy for Chinese dictatorship abandons Canadian values for a regime that crushes dissent.

Trump's reckless "Donroe Doctrine" is catastrophically backfiring. His threats to seize Canada as a 51st state and his brutal Venezuela intervention have shattered old alliances, driving Ottawa into Beijing's arms. What should have been the U.S.'s most reliable partner now seeks refuge with its greatest rival.