Canada stands at a crossroads as Trump enacts shattering political changes with the stroke of a pen

Open this photo in gallery: Photo Illustration by the Globe and Mail/GettyIllustration by Photo Illustration by the Globe and Mail/Getty From its earliest moments as the 19th-century concept of a nation, a land at the crown of the Americas that had yet to stitch its way to the Pacific or fix in place its Atlantic Coast, Canada has pursued its existence in the bosom of other, greater states. This was a country born from the British Empire, fashioned by the English and the French, and then, in the postwar period, nurtured into modernity by a privileged place in the American…