Why is anyone surprised?

Trump made a promise to place US interests first and foremost.

He is.

Canada had better get its own house in order, look after its own interests....it should forget about the globalist nonesense of saving the world, placing its  interests before Canada's own interests.

Start off with free trade within Canada....wanting global free trade without having domestic free trade is absurd.

Second start making Canada competitive again, slash taxes, slash corporate taxes, slash energy costs....one notes that Hydro Quebec, as reported in the G&M, is ' building dams to solve US nuclear woes' ...it is building dams on the Romaine River to generate clean inexpensive energy way beyond its own needs...Ontario, in contrast, has, for ideological reasons ended up with a situation that Ontarians pay the highest hydro costs in Canada ( twice as much as do Quebecers) ....at least Ontario is negotiating with Quebec to import it's cheaper hydro.