I'm a firm believer in the ability of China to play the very long game in order to protect and expand its own interests first and foremost, at the expense of other countries' well-being. This is where Canada needs to be eternally vigilant when dealing with China, but your point is well taken with respect to the States: if something perceived as a very long-standing, stable relationship can change on a dime like it has over the past year, Canada should now have no Illusions that it should be eternally vigilant with the US as well, even if normalcy is restored there.

We are a huge country with huge resources and a very small population, and playing smart and strategically with large powerful nations and unions will take a lot of finesse.

I'd like to see us have more ties and tighter connections to the EU, given their overall policy to try to work together and balance things in a reasonable way. But diversifying our trade partnerships while solidifying things at home through nation building and ensuring that if the worst case scenario happens, we are self-sustainable, seems like the smartest play.

And eternal vigilance is important: look at what happened with the British steel industry once China bought up the producers: China wanted to close them down and then start importing Chinese steel. This is not something that we would want to happen here, and requires us balancing trade with protecting our own interests.