Excellent!-----The Elephant in the Canadian Room - Victor Davis Hanson

America is surging ahead while Canada stagnates, and that growing asymmetry—not trade alone—is driving the acrimony between two longtime allies. - Victor Davis Hanson

At first glance, the current American-Canadian trade “war” is absurd. 

• We are neighbors with a long history of close friendship, speak the same language (for the most part), and spring from the same British civilization.

Nearly one million Canadians reside in the United States.
Given the two countries’ natural affinities, Canadians are nearly indistinguishable from Americans...

• So what is the unspoken source of the acrimony?
• The United States is leaping ahead of other Western countries in ways few anticipated several decades ago, while Canada is stagnating...