Agreed. There’s definitely an element of Realpolitik at play. The USA is creating a power vacuum and Canada needs to fill enough of that void in the short term to maintain leverage long term.

I don’t know much about China or Russia but I’m going to assume their billionaire oligarchs as equally soulless as the cretins that rule western nations.

I was expecting his leadership to reflect his book values more, but the complexity of geopolitics, or some other factor, has put that aside.