This is the rhetoric that keeps getting repeated, so it's totally understandable that from an outside perspective, one might expect that it's what's happening ... but the actions of the government tell a completely different story.

They have been deepening integration at nearly every turn.

Here's our Minister of Natural Resources telling the business readers of our paper of record not to worry, this is all going to be fine: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-tim-hodgson-donald-trump-us-stakes-canadian-critical-mineral-companies/

Like, the president of friggin' Palantir Canada is on the PM's Council for Canada-US Relations.

We upped our military spending to 2% of our GDP to satisfy Trump's demands of NATO and we are now promising to 2.5x that number to 5% of GDP, also demanded by Trump. https://globalnews.ca/news/11115774/canada-election-defence-spending-nato-trump/

Carney dropped the Digital Services Tax - at quite literally the 11th hour - for zero reason other than appeasement of US tech oligarchs.

We continue to stay in queue for US-made (and US-controlled) F-35s that will not help us defensively against a US incursion.

Earlier this year, our government brought armoured-vehicle manufacturer Roshel on a trade mission to the US. Roshel had already signed contracts with ICE at that point.

Our "AI champion", Cohere, runs most of their shit on top of Palantir's software.

At least one of the "major projects" for "nation-building" being rammed through by the Liberals is the Ksi Lisims LNG project, an export facility floating off our west coast that will be 100% US-owned: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/25/opinion/ksi-lisims-lng-investment-decision