When a nation's largest trading partner becomes its greatest source of uncertainty, the map of alliances must be redrawn. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's journey to Strasbourg this week represents more than a diplomatic visit — it is a reckoning with dependency, a search for new anchors in a world where proximity no longer guarantees partnership. Faced with punishing American tariffs and a US president who has publicly imagined absorbing Canada into the union, Ottawa is turning toward Brussels with a seriousness that would have seemed improbable just years ago. The question both Canada a