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The King praised Canada as a "proud, resilient and compassionate country" in February, on the 60th anniversary of the first raising of the country's maple leaf flag - an event that might have otherwise passed without royal intervention.

She wore a diamond maple leaf brooch that was given by King George VI to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in 1939 ahead of their first royal tour to Canada.

There can be no doubt that Trump’s threats or fantasies about annexing Canada as the 51st state fueled an unprecedented wave of Maple Leaf patriotism — not generally among the universe’s stronger forces — and rescued Carney and the Liberals from what seemed certain electoral doom.

Soon, every chair was occupied, and stragglers stood on the thick maple leaf–patterned carpet at the edges of the room.

But with Trump’s Maple Leaf delusion blowing up in his face, his incoherent tariff policies torpedoing the global economy and his purported deal-making brilliance accomplishing less than nothing in Ukraine, he looks nothing like an all-powerful stable-genius conqueror-slash-peacemaker on the world stage.