Blame Canada

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If the weather auguries are correct, we’re set to have another snowstorm at any moment. I’ve decided to venture out into the cold and wander around my suburban snowscape to clear my head and think about what’s really happening. Between my annoying neighbour who has a habit of throwing snow on my driveway, and the pending trade war with the United States of America, along with Canadians and Americans yelling at one another on social media, I’ve been in a bad mood lately.

I’m ambivalent because I’ve realized that without Trump’s comprehensive reform of American government and Elon Musk delving into the waste inherent in the gigantic racket that is the managerial state, America is doomed. I know without the steps that President Trump has taken at the border to close things up tighter than the security at Little Free Libraries ^[2], the historic American nation will be replaced by useless people from the third world. I know this to be true.

I also know that the government in my home country of Canada is a communist, globalist, leftist, malevolent cadre of psychopaths that hate our country and need to be cleaned out with a pressure washer set to “cleanse”. I’m caught between my identity as a Canadian who enjoys frigid weather, ice hockey, and our quirky gridiron football rules; and the incontrovertible fact that if we don’t address the issue of globalism in all its malicious and rapacious forms, the Western world is done for. The hour is late, and I see the writing on the wall like we all do.

My knee-jerk reaction is that I really don’t like it when Americans tell us what to do. Even though Americans are our best friends and trading partners, there is an inherent anti-Americanism here that emerges periodically whether we want it to or not. Canada and the United States share the longest undefended land border in the world and our economies are so integrated to the point where car parts can cross the border in upwards of eight times before final assembly in a plant on either side of the border. I blame our government for this more than I blame President Trump for anything. He knows what it will take to right the fiscal ship of the most indebted country on planet earth; and he also knows what the raw intelligence reports look like when it comes to the northern border and the drug trade. Canadian news outlets have been concealing the severity of the illicit fentanyl trade and the presence of organized crime syndicates in Canada from the public. If it were not for the intrepid work of real investigative reporters like Sam Cooper ^[3],the reality of the fentanyl scourge and the ubiquitous presence of Chinese triad gangs and Mexican cartels would reman hidden.

I worry that Canada’s elected officials on both sides of the House of Commons —which is not sitting right now because of Trudeau’s self-serving prorogation— are grossly incapable of carrying out the reforms necessary to save our country. Although I do like Pierre Poilievre’s assertion that Canada needs to desperately increase our presence in the arctic and re-exert our sovereignty, his desired immigration numbers were far too high for my liking. Meanwhile, though, Trudeau, the man who should be spending every waking moment talking to the Americans, decided that he needed to fly off to France and meet with Emmanuel Macron for God-knows-what reason and kowtow to the Europeans.

The mainstream press, which spends most of its time running interference for Trudeau, was busy telling its dwindling audience that the prime minister was trying to diversify trade relationships with other overseas markets so that Canada wouldn’t be as reliant on the US; but we all know he was hiding from Trump. The two hate each other, I don’t think that’s any sort of secret at this point. When he initially responded to Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs ^[4], one reporter to her credit asked whether he had actually spoken to the newly inaugurated president, to which Trudeau responded no, not since January 20. That may or may not have been a lie. If he had a modicum of sense instead of being a craven coward, Trudeau should have been spending every waking moment negotiating some sort of trade deal with Trump, but instead he’s avoided the president like the plague, prorogued parliament, pretended to resign ^[5], and left our country adrift.

I despair at the prospect of handing the country over to Justin’s successor. All signs indicate that the powers that be in globalist circles along with left wing commentators here in Canada want Mark Carney to take over the reigns of our failing country so he can accelerate the already rampant globalist program. Carney loves carbon taxes; he despises Trump and any sort of nationalism. Even though he has emphasized that the rank-and-file citizenry must sacrifice in order to combat the evil that is climate change, he likes to be chauffeured around ^[6] in a Rolls-Royce limousine. He made a recent comment about our fentanyl problem here in Canada and callously said that our problem was not the same as the problem of opioids in the United States. His comments caused a small backlash as individuals on X/Twitter ^[7] who lost loved ones to the drug called him out.

Thanks to Trudeau’s absenteeism and avoidance, Canada’s provincial premiers were forced to take their message to Washington ^[8] themselves. I really don’t think they accomplished anything of value. They didn’t even manage to get a meeting with Trump himself. I’m normally not this cynical about things, but I know in my heart that their efforts to stave off the annexation of Canada by the United States were futile.

At this point it is only a matter of time before Trump puts enough economic pressure on Canada to make our leaders capitulate. What form will the capitulation take? If Canada were in a better economic position, if we had a leader that was devoted to the prosperity of our country, and had a good diplomatic relationship with President Trump, things would be very different. But alas they are not.

The entire political class here in Canada, no matter the stripe, are weak pushovers that have betrayed our country. I never thought I would say this in all seriousness, but I would rather be an American under the MAGA program than continue along with the globalist destruction that has done nothing but make white Canadians strangers in their own land.