The petulant leader of our former ally to the south has just exposed a weakness of the Elbows Up champion we just elected, who acquiesced to the threat from U.S. President Donald Trump, that if we don’t do things his way, he will pick up his ball and go home. We can never forget the American president is on record repeatedly coveting Canada as his 51st state, and has asserted he could take it by economic, rather than by physical, force.