Canada's frightening new reality: our next door neighbour has upended the world order

Open this photo in gallery: Demonstrators rally downtown to show their support for Ukraine as local news is broadcast on a large outdoor screen nearby on March 2, in Chicago, Ill.Scott Olson/Getty Images The spectacle of U.S. President Donald Trump and his toady acolyte, Vice-President JD Vance, berating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office last week was many things: embarrassing, shameful, shocking, reckless. But to Canadians watching their performance, the astonishing scene should have evoked another reaction: fear. In one chair was a man so ignorant of history that he cannot conceive of the risk that unchecked Russian…