“I was — I think it’s fair to say — probably the most pro-American prime minister in Canadian history,” Harper said of his tenure from 2006 to 2015.

If the current government asked him a year ago for advice on U.S. President Donald Trump being re-elected and wanting to renegotiate trade, he says he would have thought it was a real opportunity for Canada to deepen its economic and security partnership with the United States.

“However, when this government did actually ask me a few weeks ago … my advice was the opposite,” he told the Midwestern Legislative Conference, an annual non-partisan event being held in Saskatoon this year under the shadow of the ongoing U.S.-Canada trade war.

Harper called the trade war unfortunate, but said Canada has become “grossly” overly reliant on the U.S. — “independent of the current disputes” — and there is no reason for that.

“Just because we have that geographical proximity does not justify the degree of dependence that we have on a single market,” he said.

Most Pro American PM, our location still doesn’t justify our trade, we’re over dependant on the US. Unless you asked him a year ago, where his best advice would have been to get even closer.

Fuck you Stephen