"Canada is a sovereign nation and will do what is in its best interests. "

No you're not and no you won't. Sorry to hurt your feelings with facts but it's the failure to accept these facts that makes for a nation wide neurosis.
 In fact you don't even try. What sovereign country would dedicate hundreds of articles in its national newspaper to the candidate for president of another country to the exclusion of its own news? And then have reader response to these articles be higher than any domestic articles. Lack of ambition and competitiveness has you selling your exports to only one country to the point where you are completely beholding to that country for everything from your culture to your military defense to your jobs. With only one neighbor, the target of state sponsored bigotry, you are more beholding and dependent on the U.S. than is any other of the world's countries.