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That's not really what a threat to sever relations means. It would be talking about not having any formal diplomatic relations. All of the embassies and consulates each has in the other country would be closed. Diplomatic representatives would be required to exit the respective countries. The Russian foreign ministry would not communicate directly with the Canadian foreign ministry; they'd find some sort of proxy country to act for them.
The US doesn't have diplomatic relations with a few countries like North Korea. We entrust, as I recall, Sweden to speak for us in North Korea.
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Yeah.
https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-north-korea/
That being said, Russia issues threats like crazy and doesn't follow through on a lot of them, so I don't know how seriously one should take this.