What began as a tariff dispute between two of the world's closest trading partners has hardened into something more structural: the United States has moved from raising prices on Canadian goods to banning them outright, targeting dairy, alcohol, and motorcycles in a gesture that crosses from economic negotiation into economic punishment. Canada, rather than waiting for the storm to pass, has begun deliberately reorienting its economy away from American dependence — a response that suggests Ottawa no longer views this as a temporary disagreement but as a permanent shift in the relationship. The