In the long arc of nations seeking their footing amid shifting alliances, Canada finds itself at a crossroads — its oldest continental partnership fraying under the weight of mutual tariffs, its prime minister turning westward across the Atlantic in search of new kinship. Mark Carney's pursuit of a 'unique alliance' with the European Union is less a diplomatic gambit than a philosophical reckoning: when a neighbor becomes an adversary, a country must decide who it is and who it wishes to stand beside. The answer, for now, points toward Brussels.