For generations, Canada's prosperity has been bound to the rhythms of its southern neighbor — a proximity that has brought both benefit and vulnerability. Now, Canadian leader Mark Carney has stepped forward with a detailed vision for loosening that bond, proposing a deliberate diversification of the country's economic partnerships at a moment when North American trade tensions have made the costs of dependency impossible to ignore. His intervention signals not a rupture with the United States, but a reckoning with the limits of relying on any single partner's goodwill. The question Canada is