As US relations fray, Canada gets serious about its own launch industry

What happened

But then the Trump Administration started threatening and instituting tariffs. The Canada Rocket Company gets serious about medium-lift launch.

Sure, something interesting might eventually happen, but no one outside of a few Canadian space geeks was paying much attention. There was talk of making Canada the 51st state. This has led the Canadian government to reassess all manner of areas where it had previously been happy to rely largely on the US government and American companies for goods and services.