BBC: At present, Ottawa seems content to bet on the former outcome, calculating that fear of a midterm blowout in key industrial battlegrounds like Michigan and Ohio will force Trump to back down before ballots are cast.
“I don’t think there’s the kind of internal political divisions in Canada that maybe the Trump administration would have expected,” Bayoumi said. “I think Carney has a lot of political runway to really get a good deal for Canada and not settle for anything less.”…