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Even before there was ALWAYS an undercurrent of "big ugly southern neighbor" syndrome up there. It always manifests itself in Canadian elections and "The US is trying to take us over" is a popular trope in the Labour party.
Again, it's not the Labour party - it's the Liberal party.
And Trump changed perception into reality. He's made it clear many times that he's not joking. He does want to take over Canada. And even if you don't credit that, he has fundamentally changed actual policy of the U.S. towards Canada. Unlike any time in the last many decades, the U.S. is genuinely and materially taking steps that will dramatically harm Canada. We are now treating them as an adversary and rival, and not an ally.
We've changed our policy, Dope. We're no longer the good guys to Canada, and we're not going to be the good guys to Canada any longer. We are now an adversary to them. In the immediate term, probably the most threatening to their well-being. So they picked the party that's going to be more inclined to push back against that adversary.
That was a smart move on their part. Bad for us - we'd be better off if they had elected someone more ideologically aligned with Trump, and therefore faced more pressure from their constituency to accommodate rather than push back on our newly implemented trade war. But definitely the right move for them.
