By now you will all have received the happy news that the new God-Emperor of the United States won’t immediately be imposing brutal new tariffs on Canadian exports. Canadians will have to decide for themselves whether the past two weeks of panic, threats and furious internecine struggle were unnecessary, or whether our frantic efforts to cajole the Emperor and his court were actually successful behind the scenes. But the objective, disinterested takeaway must be that something has gone very badly awry with American government of laws-not-men.