Canada is a myth-pleasing heaven.
One of the most popular and pleasant caricatures that have become popular these days is that the land and people unite in happy solidarity and resist the unpopular president who seeks to add Canada as the 51st star of the starry sky flag.
The unpleasant truth is that Mark Carney doesn’t want Mark Carney well, just as the Harvard-trained technocrat-turned minister at Harvard University in Canada meets for the first time with the leading commander of Donald Trump in the United States.
A significant portion of Canadians, still clever from the liberal’s astounding revival last election night, cheer on other guys who continue to talk about erasing the “artificial lines” that separate countries that are crossing two borders.
While Carney argues that Canada’s sovereignty is unnegotiable, I think Trump will continue to publicly anger his ungrateful Northern neighbor for leaving the US for a long time.
Despite the broader representation of new Canadian nationalism, including boycotting US-made ones and traveling south of the 49th parallel, Trump has good reason to pursue his dream of a swollen empire.
Don’t forget to acknowledge that in parts of Canada, the idea of joining the US is not as radioactive as it should be.
The evidence is in the vote.
A recent survey revealed that 18% of conservative voters are clearly keen to trade O Canada for a voicing expression of Star-Spangled Banner.
Let’s pause to consider the harsh importance of this fantastic sentence.
One of the founding fathers of Canada, as well as drunk and racist, descendants of many modern ideological ideology of Sir John a McDonald, are content to exchange Canadian citizenship and declare a vowed heart to America.
A calming story will make you even more worried as you turn west further into your venture.
According to the same poll, stopping 21% of Albertans would say “yes” to be absorbed by Trump’s ugly, a US vision that undermines its appearance.
This isn’t Peterling, a raid of an unrelated sovereign movement that has been hurting Canada since the late 1950s. This is not what Quebec nationalists protect or argue for their identity, language, or cultural survival.
No, this is a loud, bewildering belt in the West – constantly angry, isolated, nursing decades of complaints. It seems to flirt with pinning as well as separation.
For Canadian Cocketed Annexists, Trump represents a relief from Ottawa’s myopic politicians, reaching the tense leadership exercised in post-election elections by smug voters in Ontario and Quebec.
In this stubborn context, Trump’s crude empire design is treated as an opportunity rather than a threat.
With love for deregulation, muscle independence, and rejection of every suffocating ounce of inventive step, his pure image resonates with the scores of Canadian conservatives who feel abandoned by politicians interested in giving favors to Toronto, Montreal and beyond, Toronto, Toronto, “woke” ingredients.
Trump’s flammable rhetoric – expressed in the silly language of “injustice,” exceptionalism, and “globalist elite” – calls for a sense of disillusionment with the growing state of existing alliances of Canadians.
The president’s calculated provocation was amplified by social media and sympathetic “alternative” newslets – that it reinforces the perception that Canadian federalism is “broken” and its power has not been heard.
In this corrosive environment, defeated conservative leader Pierre Poilierble must ultimately consider his role in promoting alienation and dysfunction-based narratives.
In his pursuit of bigoted power, Poilierbre tried to dissing and echoing the nation he sought to lead – often almost verbatim – Trump’s cry and dichotomously exaggerated.
The US president’s ironic efforts to undermine the independence of its former allies have been replied by united politicians who are eager to declare Canada again and again that it is falling apart from within.
Potentially disastrous and unintended consequences are revealed.
Like all demagogues, Trump is adept at sniffing vulnerability and weakness. And while most Canadians remain faithful to maple leaves, angering their hearts by his offsprings, the cracks are ripped.
Trump, as expected, is exploiting them with performance threats and a bout of grinning gratings.
She dismisses the Appellation, but Alberta Prime Minister Daniel Smith, by his words and deeds, is the patron saint of the state’s brave separatists.
Smith’s “Alberta Sovereignty Act” is not a benign claim of local rights that allies assert it within and outside the legislative assembly.
This is actually the state of Alberta declared, Sotbose: “You choose which law to choose.”
It is a blatant rejection of federalism and a humiliation to the Constitution itself.
Smith’s broadside denounces the betrayal and domination of central Canada, paralleling Trump’s harmful modus operandi.
This is not about building a pipeline or reducing taxes. It is to promote the sense of Alberta as Alberta and groom citizens to view Canada as an uneven restraining jacket, rather than staying home.
It’s Trumpism in oil-dyed cowboy boots.
Along with what constitutes Canada’s narrow political spectrum, the coalition of national leaders must take the dissatisfaction that is animated in the West seriously.
This means a wholesale commitment to the order that we accept compromise and cannot take Canada’s constantly sensitive unity for granted.
As the curse of alienation spreads, absurdity becomes imagined when more and more Westerners see themselves as outsiders of their own country.
Probably fragmentation, not annexation. And it could quickly bring Canada’s consistent, inclusive conception of nationhood to a crisis.
Trump’s harmful prescriptions are not only a portal to an uncertain future, but they pose existential dangers. Canada, despite being remote, faces possible risks, breaking through invitations rather than banging.
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