Montreal, Canada – In his first speech as Prime Minister in Canada, Mark Carney What the observers described as a stunning statement.

“I know these are dark days,” Carney said in a room full of supporters on Sunday after he won the race to lead the ruling liberal party. “The dark days brought by a country that we can no longer trust.”

The country concerned? An ally in which Canada shares the longest borders of unpaid land in the world, and until recently, apparently non -trading relationships: the United States.

“This is the jaw in the broader context,” said John Parmenter, a history professor at Cornell University in New York State in New York State.

Experts say that the idea that the United States is no longer able to trust it reflects the feeling that was It spreads quickly throughout Canada In recent months, however.

At that time, the Canadians saw a mixture of shock, confusion and anger because US President Donald Trump was over and over to their country – as part of his global trade policies and expansion aspirations.

Trump has imposed a severe tariff on Canadian goods and threatened more. He calls regularly to include Canada, and has been made Understanding claims About the outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Canadian electoral system.

“The damage to the relationship is great.”. “It will be long.”

However, with Trump’s attacks against his northern neighbor to his country, many observers are now asking: Why?

Why does the president target a country that is widely seen as one of the most reliable partners in the United States? Why does Trump look installed in Canada?

“The closest goal”

While the current trade war in the United States and Canada are “unprecedented” in modern history, it is not surprising in the context of Trump, according to Aaron Etteneger, a professor of political science at the University of Carlton in Ottawa.

Ettinger pointed out that the American president continued similar economic policies “America first” during his first term, including Identification of definitions On Canadian and aluminum steel imports in 2018.

“Nothing of this is new. We know this is coming. He promoted everything. But he is talking now 50 percent rates From definitions. “The aggression is raised more than it was seven or eight years ago,” Einting told Al -Jazeera.

Within the scope of the Trump administration’s hostile approach to foreign policy, Ettened said he did not believe that Canada is particularly distinguished. Instead, “it only happens to be the closest goal, along with Mexico.”

Trump treats all countries as if they were subordinates for his desires. Etnitger said:

“So Canada will end with definitions, just like the European Union and Mexico countries. Canada coincides with being close. It coincides with Canada playing against the species and fighting strongly at the present time.”

The Canadian government has Imposing revenge definitions On billions of dollars of American goods, which led to Trump’s anger. She said that the measures will remain in effect until the American president will cancel the threat of fees.

Personal hostility

However, Trump Focus on Canada It exceeds definitions and economic policy alone.

Even before entering the White House in January, the Republican leader began urging Canada to become the 51st American state. He repeatedly indicated to Trudeau as a “ruler” instead of the Prime Minister.

Trump also frame a plan to include Canada as a blessing for Canadians and a way to avoid American tariffs.

“People will pay a much lower tax than they are now paying. Trump said:” They will have perfect military protection. “

While Trudeau and other Canadian leaders initially ignored the notes as a good ribs, they soon started to take Trump’s repeated calls to annex more seriously.

Last week, Trudeau told reporters that Trump wanted “a complete collapse of the Canadian economy because this would be implicitly.” the The outgoing Prime Minister Canada will never become part of the United States and the management of the administration is called a “very stupid” policy.

Trump and Trudeau had no particular warm relationship, namely Soutained publicly In 2018 on trade and definitions as well.

Jeffrey Kapaserfis, Vice President of Political Studies at the Nissanin Center, a center -right research center in Washington, DC, said hostility can play a role in Trump’s recent speech against Canada.

“Trump is always looking for a way to take revenge and revenge against the people who criticized him in the past, and Trudo will definitely fall into this category,” he said.

Seeing the “nineteenth century”

But Kabaservice said that the idea of ​​Trump in the nineteenth century “when it means to be a great power is at the heart of his inclusion.

“When Trump talks about the desire to” make America great again, “one of the components of what is going on in his mind with greatness is an expansionist state, reaching new lands and calling for it, which expands itself.”

However, when the American president says he wants Canada to be the state 51Kabaservice said it is likely that he does not think about what this means in practice, including how to absorb a country of 40 million people will change American policy.

“It is a kind of just [a] The boy’s imagination: “Will it be great for America to expand to expand in all these other countries? Will it be great if America was like Britain in its imperial days, when the world map was covered in red?

“I think this is the level he thinks about these things.”

Although Trump’s base may not contain Canada on the priority list, Kabaservice enjoys supporters of the American president when he suggests things “that make his enemies and even many of his allies are unhappy.”

“They are applauding what they see as his daring, his willingness to visualize a new world, and his ability to” possess LIBS “and make them cry.”

According to Amy Koukh, Republican political strategic expert, Trump’s policies in Canada should be seen as part of a wider batch of hegemony in Western hemisphere.

Customs tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods, and calls for regaining control of the Panama channel Get GreenlandAnd an executive order Naming the Gulf of Mexico “The Gulf of America” ​​are all elements of this effort.

“that it [about] “Proof of fully dominance in the Western hemisphere, and I think Canada is part of that,” Koch told Al -Jazeera.

“Tactics without a strategy”

Wherever Trump’s real motivation lies, observers agree that his attitude towards Canada can have a permanent impact.

“The poem about Donald Trump is that he is bullying, and intimidating the fathers who suffer from their strength.” This is what he is doing. “

“Trump can do things like a tax tariff because he enjoys lifting in Canada and has a latitude in terms of the responsibility of the CEO … but we are also in the process of destroying confidence with our allies and it will be very difficult to rebuild.”

Etnenger added that while people in the United States and Canada continue to try to find the logical basis behind Trump’s actions, the president may be “employing tactics without a strategy.”

For example, American stock markets This week decreased In uncertainty about Trump’s tariff, raising fears that the country can slip into stagnation.

“He knows that he wants to strike strongly, wants to put definitions, or wants to escalate. But there is no strategic way of the account that occurs here.” “This makes the man mainly.”