Never before ha Canada had any need or desire to cut off electricity, close border crossings, or raise tariffs in retaliation to hostile US actions that hurt both sides.
Trump obviously expects other countries to bow down to his whim of the moment, no matter how damaging to both sides. It seems bizarre.
But this chaos is not a side effect, it is the plan. Make things so unsteady and uncomfortable that people will become compliant. They will accept much less gov services, protection and economy so that they can return to stability that existed just a short time ago.
This has been in the works for many years through right wing media. They have been building up Putin, Orban, etc as examples of great leaders, conveniently ignoring their brutal control of media, free speech, jailing & killing political opposition. The angry followers believe without question.
Trump is taking $5M for one on one meetings.He is firing anyone in government responsible for oversight. He is allowing a billionaire to cancel investigations into him and his companies because he bankrolled the campaign. Removing needed gov services is a bonus.. He now has had someone arrested without stating a crime.
This is a dangerous path for America. Republicans in congress are quietly giving away their power of the purse and refusing any oversight of executive actions that take away their own power. They are making themselves irrelevant while thinking they are riding the Trump train to power, not realizing the train has one driver who has no problem releasing all the passenger cars over a cliff.