Canada, long anchored to the economic gravity of its southern neighbor, is quietly but deliberately reorienting itself on the world stage. Facing sustained trade friction with Washington, Ottawa is entertaining a historic offer of EU associate membership while simultaneously opening commercial dialogue with Beijing — two moves that together suggest not a crisis, but a considered reckoning with dependence. This is the story of a nation choosing, perhaps for the first time in a generation, to hold more than one door open at once.