Canada awakes from World Series fever dream

For a few short but glorious weeks the hopes of this great nation were fully invested in a couple dozen (mostly) American millionaires who get paid to play baseball. That's over now. Time to snap out of the trance. Back to reality! I see where our Banker-in-charge paid a visit to Chairman Xi to extend an olive branch of sorts. Sorry about that Two Michaels stuff... let's get the Canada-China relationship back on track! Fair enough. Makes sense now that we're desperate to expand our trade relationships beyond the USA. Remember, it was Ottawa's toadying to US dictats that derailed the Canada-China relationship to begin with. A couple of days after the photo-op with Xi, Carney sends his Defence Minister to Manila to sign a defence deal with the government of Bongbong Marcos, so we can help Phillipines "deter Chinese aggression." How stupid is that? In the first place, whoever came up with that moronic headline should be aware that the US has nine military bases in the Phillipines. Even a complete idiot should be able to figure out that if those nine US bases fail to deter Chinese aggression, a defence deal with Canada is utterly pointless. So why bother? I'll tell you why. Because even as our leaders loudly proclaim their defiance of Trump, they don't want to piss him off too much. That leads to embarrassments like having to apologize to Trump for that 75 million TV ad Doug Ford invested our tax dollars in. Hence the need to signal our continued allegience to the American Empire with empty gestures like the Phillipines deal.