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Constructing and securing a wall of that size and scale is a complex effort requiring the co-operation of multiple stakeholders, the discernment of a patient project manager and a sustainable vision of security that can exist beyond the years of any one president. In short, it is a project Trump is incapable of executing.

Which brings us to Canada.

Canada is a country worthy of invasion. Canada has abundant resources of fresh water, oil, coal and timber, all of which will be increasingly important as climate change continues its death march across history. The longer we scorch the Earth, the more valuable Canada’s resources become. If this weren’t the case, Nestlé wouldn’t have worked so hard to outbid the small town of Aberfoyle, Ont., for its own water. Nestlé’s justification for the purchase of the Middlebrook site indicated that it was a “supplemental well for future business growth.” Nestlé is thinking ahead. Is Canada?

Besides, we all know how Trump feels about oil resources. “It used to be ‘to the victor belong the spoils,’ ” he said when asked about Iraq at the NBC Commander in Chief Forum, adding “Now, there was no victor there, believe me. There was no victor. But I always said: Take the oil.” How would President Trump feel, if he learned that Canada is second only to Saudi Arabia in its available oil reserves, and that its oil is less costly to produce than that of other suppliers?

Would President Trump wait for a pipeline? No. Waiting for a safe and legal pipeline takes too much time. Annexations for oil resources are much simpler. Just ask Ukraine. Given Trump’s connections to Putin via ex-adviser Paul Manafort, and his pro-Kremlin foreign policy positions, it’s not a daring leap of imagination to consider that Trump might put Putin’s tactics to use regarding Canada.