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In other words, who will now obediently refer to the 鈥淕ulf of America?鈥� Who will use the phrase 鈥溾�澛爋谤 with a straight face, and who will not?

And what is Canada to do about for the next four years, or fewer, or more?

Canada needs a stable federal government that understands what citizens want and need from the economy, as well as knowing how to react to Trump鈥檚 planned punishing 25 per cent tariffs and arbitrary annexation threats.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is an awkward man who doesn鈥檛 seem up to leading a nation. Imagine him meeting, well, anyone really, the NATO Secretary General, the German chancellor, or Mary, my hair stylist.

I see Poilievre more as a mayor of a pleasant mid-size town in Saskatchewan or the Ottawa Valley. He smiles tightly, shakes hands with babies, shows up at town picnics, and gets to know people. And they get to know him, which doesn鈥檛 help. Word-of-mouth is not his friend. He gets one term only and ends up at a local dealership, selling boats, hot tubs, hot tubs in boats. That鈥檚 democracy.

But we鈥檙e in crisis now. We need a normal prime minister, not a nest of nasty vituperation and childish slogans. Poilievre has always been alarmingly vengeful in spirit, but he seemed to have sagged since Justin Trudeau departed.

In the wisp of winter we have left, Liberals need to choose a candidate everyone already knows. That鈥檚 Chrystia Freeland.

She鈥檚 smart. She never loses her cool even under extreme provocation, whether it鈥檚 Trudeau, or an in an undershirt howling at her in an elevator, or MAGA Republicans. She has years of experience in coping with the Republican trade mindset. She鈥檚 from Alberta, a warm person entirely self-made, palpably not a snob, doesn鈥檛 hold grudges, and best of all, has proved she can lead the party.

鈥淐ancelled Chrystia! Fancy Freeland!鈥� Nah, Poilievre won鈥檛 rattle her.

We know very little about Mark Carney, which has been his preference to date. If the Liberal party chooses him, he has about a week to tell Canadians what he stands for, and why he previously and repeatedly chose not to work for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in cabinet.

Canada needs a new tough government. I greatly approved of Trudeau although many of his stances distressed me. He was laissez faire about criminal justice, overly keen on the blocked road that is identity politics, and blas茅 about women鈥檚 rights when they clashed with his idea of gender rights. His effective dismissal of Freeland was cruel almost to the point of emotional disturbance.

But I will vote Liberal because they鈥檒l still be the best on offer, compared with the NDP鈥檚 Jagmeet Singh and his unforgivable eagerness to betray Canadians and hand power to Conservatives.聽

We live in a time of madness. Copresidents Donald Trump and Elon Musk, rich, and unhinged, rule the world. Canada needs a sane, experienced, unflappable prime minister with a stated plan of attack. I wish Trudeau had made it easier for his party to provide Canada with that person.