"...it (the US) is still our most important friend, ally and partner."
   A friend with principles and moral courage needs to alert their friend when he's going wrong (The US since the 1960's and the Vietnam War).
   Canada should be promoting peace, order and good government these last 40 years after the Vietnam War ended but the US only became more war-like, more racist, more neglectful of low income workers. We should be promoting our universal single payer health care system in the US, rather than letting our American "friend" weaken our system.
 Yes, it does seem like we're back in the 1930's.
  But instead of foolishly scapegoating ethnic groups who have money and lawyers, we're scapegoating the poor who have no money and no lawyers. Much easier because most people don't care if the majority of the world's seven billion suffers in poverty.

  Clearly global corporate capitalism of the 1% doesn't care about nations, sovereignty, peace, democracy, or people.
  Those are up to us.