If people feel a need to cave and sign a deal with the US, I think it’s important to have a feel for the relative strengths and weaknesses of the Canadian US economies. I’ve dug up a lot of information that would suggest we are doing much better than America. https://billhulet.substack.com/p/my-hot-take-on-the-current-trade
150 years grossly overestimates our integration. Canada and the US have only been on good terms since the 50s, and our level of integration reached its zenith less than 40 years ago. Our economy arguably did better before US integration became a priority as well. We have not, in fact, always been friends. We had relatively free communication, but for most of our history we’ve been more adversarial than co-operative.
We had a good, balanced, mixed economy before Diefenbaker started bowing and scraping before the White House like a mewling coward. It’s beyond time we return to our roots.