except that we won't - we'll show up five minutes early, looking for brownie points, trying to "mend the relationship".

and, they'll toss us aside like the sycophants that we really are.

mccallum was perhaps the last true representative of the old guard in the liberal party, that argued for multilateralism and saw canada as a middle power that could act as an intermediary. his removal was actually deeply symbolic, which is what i was trying to get at. today, the liberals just want to be the 51st province, just like the conservatives - and he will no doubt be replaced by some american educated sinologist that upholds the cia-backed washington consensus.

we're a client state.

and, canadians need to wake up to this and push back on it.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/29/the-united-states-doesnt-have-your-back/