I don't think they want that to "spite the Bad Orange Man." They just view it as better than the alternative.

Becoming a Chinese vassal is better than just working with the United States? If that's the case then they're not worth saving.

First, we want to make them 100% dependent on the U.S. market - or at best, only North American markets.

No we don't. We want supply chain provenance in North America for critical goods; they're free to make other deals so long as they don't circumvent our trade laws by packaging goods for sale here (as they have done in the past).

Second, we want to exploit their existing dependency on U.S. markets to extract economic concessions, under the claim that they are robbing us blind or are bad trading partners.

This is actually true. Why wouldn't we want to get the best possible terms for US firms?

Therefore, Canada is naturally looking to diversify away from the U.S. They used to trust us not to start trade wars with them, now they can't trust us - so they're protecting themselves against us. That requires looking for markets and economic ties outside of the U.S. - almost exactly the opposite of the "Fortress North America" that we were pursuing.

Carney is a WEF globalist creature. He wants the cheapest possible goods and he doesn't give a rip about where he gets them from. It's really that simple.

I get that it's de rigueur (and argumentatively convenient) to just blame the US every single time but in many cases that's not the right angle.