He's temporary. Once he's out of office and the left gets the vapors again, things will return to sanity. American sanity - you have to make some allowances.
I know, there is a
possibility the prevailing foreign policy will change. The there is Hillary who is less capable.
Few Americans realize the depth of the change over just a few years. Few realize, probably because of so many dramatic events on the world scene, certainly the hacking of Sony pictures [yeah, sure, it happened] takes presidence over stupid Canada.
Canada is never a priority to an American government, except with Reagan who championed NAFTA, which now the ruling liberals say you hate and want torn up. So, to put in perspective what has happened here; more than the canceling of part of a pipeline project, the future has no future.
There will
never be a phase four. Ever. The number one pipeline builder in north America has lost money on a contract that had been green lighted. What chance do you think they will be proposing another one any time soon? What chance do you see for new crude pipelines to feed your refineries? There will not be a pipeline out of Canada expanded or built for at least two decades.
Meanwhile, Canada is bringing in new, tough restrictions on tank cars and transport of hazardous goods, by the end of this decade there won't be any in or out. And we have re-established tough regulations on tankers. Where will you get your new oil?
Not from us.
In the meantime, since 1995 US trade both directions has plummeted to 40% of all trade from 80%. We have found new markets, we need you less and less and now that there is zero chance of increasing oil and gas trade why bother?. Already in the works is a northern route, with no side tracks to American refineries, from the source to tankers and to Asia,
our new best friends; you get Iran.
We don't need you anymore.
And with liberals shouting we don't want Canadian oil on our land, how favorably will the Canadian public treat a US request to expand the Alaska network?
It's more than a pipeline.
We need to concentrate on our Country's problems and stop sending money to everyone else in the world who comes to us, hat in hand. We don't have the money, so we borrow it? That's like using a credit card to pay the bill we previously put on that credit card! No wonder we have a debt of $ 18 trillion dollars and climbing by the minute! Craziness on the part of our elected officials in DC, and it can't continue for much longer, I'm afraid!
Gentlemen... civility. Let's remain topical and address the substantive facts. Don't respond to baiting with flaming or namecalling, respond with facts that show the truth of the matter. Keep it civil, and about the topic not each other. 
