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As Donald Trump heads towards 100 days in power with nothing much to show for it, he appears to be attempting to distract public attention by making Canada a scapegoat.

“Everything’s gone wrong since Canada came along” is no longer just a line from the South Park movie.

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Who would be surprised if Trump broke into a chorus of: “Blame Canada, with its hockey hullabaloo and that b—- Anne Murray, too”?

On Monday evening Wilbur Ross, the American commerce secretary, lamented the deteriorating special relationship and notified Canada of $1 billion in softwood lumber countervailing duties

On Tuesday, Trump held a White House photo opportunity with U.S. farmers in order to highlight how “rough” Canada has been on the U.S., how Canadians have “outsmarted” America and how the United States will no longer put up with it.

“Watch!” he warned in a tweet about the dairy industry that was pregnant with as much menace as if he were Dirty Harry wielding a .44 Magnum.