Michael Bociurkiw is a global affairs analyst and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. Did Russian President Vladimir Putin manage to hoodwink the Trudeau government? It sure seems that way. Earlier this month, after a loud outcry from the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian-Canadian community, Ottawa announced it would cancel an exemption to sanctions that would have allowed six natural-gas turbines to be returned to Germany. One of the units had been repaired by a Montreal company and was destined for the Nord Stream pipeline, which carries natural gas from Russia to Germany and is operated by...