It has been just over one year since Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the president of the United States for his second term.

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In that short interim we have gone from tolerating light-hearted jests about Trump annexing Canada into becoming the 51st state through economic pressure to entering a very real trade war replete with damaging tariffs.

The main sources of Trump’s displeasure with Canada were a so-called porous border that was allowing a deadly flow of fentanyl into the U.S. and Canada’s longtime underfunding of our military.

While rallying patriotism with the slogan “elbows up,” Prime Minister Mark Carney was quietly bending the knee to appease the president. Despite the fact that only a tiny fraction of illegal fentanyl enters the U.S. across the Canadian border, Carney went through the elaborate charade of leasing a couple of Black Hawk helicopters emblazoned with the RCMP logo.

Based near Ottawa at Carp, Ont., the limited range of these tactical utility helicopters means that they can only monitor a very short stretch of the Canada-U.S. border. To date, I have not seen a single report of these helicopters being involved in any drug bust.

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