Good analysis, Anon.
Canada is currently experiencing a short burst of economic high energy thanks to an infusion of government debt. That's like trying to make it through the day on Red Bull alone. Eventually something gives way.
Trudeau knows this. All one has to do is look at the government's long term fiscal projections:
https://www.fin.gc.ca/pub/ltefp-peblt/2017/report-rapport-eng.asp
> Slower GDP growth
> Ageing workforce
> Declining labour force participation
> Mounting debt
> More refugees (who need social supports)
> Increasing internal strife (pipelines a case in point)
And that's not including the shaky ground known as the Vancouver and Toronto housing markets.
Trudeau knows the government debt spending bubble will reach its limits, and so he needs to blame this collapse on Trump somehow.
Canada is completely, and utterly fucked, they just don't know it yet.