China will use any leverage to bully its so-called ‘allies’ as it has been doing for decades.

This is a false accusation. The alternative is waiting for loving US capital and policy to be more apparently loving.

The only option for Canada is a strong diversification of its trade, particularly with democracies in Europe, in the Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere imo.

Democracies that are determined, like Canada’s, by the CIA. Instead of having “fake democracy” values, value countries that aren’t corrupt. The US colonies aren’t in the list.