Canada fated to try to do deals with Trump

Financial Times: Despite all his talk about becoming more independent of the US, Carney knows Canada doesn’t have a credible alternative that could remotely replace it as an export market in the foreseeable future. I’ve heard it argued that the Canadian prime minister mistimed his strategy by fighting the US alone rather than with the middle-power alliances he talked about at Davos in January. That’s putting way too much weight on an alliance’s potential: disparate geographies, economies and political orientations meant middle powers were never going to form a solid negotiating bloc…