The prime minister is antagonizing Trump and that could have serious consequences for any upcoming referendum

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EDMONTON — Canada is careening towards multiple constitutional crises at once and virtually no one, least of all the prime minister, is making the argument for this country to stick together.

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Mark Carney is far too busy stirring tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump to concern himself with the threat of Alberta separatism, too ambivalent to recognize the threat posed by Indigenous land claims and far too inept to manage rising separatist sentiments in Quebec. When it comes to actually asserting sovereignty over Canada, Carney could hardly be bothered, and that’s before we even consider the threat posed by the Chinese.

For the moment, however, it is Alberta separation that poses the most immediate threat, and it is not at all clear that Carney takes it seriously — so much so that he might end up giving the movement a push. The prime minister’s speech in Davos last week exhibited a shallow understanding of history and international politics, and it made the erroneous suggestion that China and the U.S., as “hegemons,” are morally equivalent.

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