The news also prompted a flurry of late-evening phone calls: between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Trump, and between Trudeau and several provincial premiers, in an effort to defuse the danger to Canada’s economy.

“It was a good discussion and they will stay in touch,” a Canadian official said of the Trudeau-Trump call. The prime minister also spoke with the premiers of Ontario and Quebec.

I wish the other problems facing citizens of Canada were treated with this same kind of urgency from the federal government.