The libs on FB still slamming this. Proof that ya can’t fix dumb in Voters……

Don’t miss reading this one folks!
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I’m not going to wade into the weeds of the current trade war between Canada and U.S. President Donald Trump, because hundreds of articles from across virtually every newspaper in Canada (and some in the United States) have already dealt with it. My interest is in the political implications.
To quote the title of a famous book about South Africa: Cry the Beloved Country, Canada is in a huge mess; everyone now sees that. When I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, that was not the case. The old “Dominion of Canada” had a fairly solid national identity. It was, for all its faults, a serious country.
Not anymore. Over the following half-century it has become, under a left-liberal political hegemony, a “protection racket,” that benefits its academic, cultural, economic and intellectual elites, who dominate the CBC, universities, film production and so on, who could not competitively and economically survive otherwise. It has been able to indulge in these activities precisely because it borders the United States – a country that, until Trump came along, paid it little attention.
But the empire that America built following the Second World War has now been unravelling. Trump is the result, not the cause. It can’t afford political and economic free riders anymore. And who blew the whistle on this? Why, none other than the prime minister who hastened our decline over the past decade!
After Trump won the 2024 election, Justin Trudeau flew down to Mar-a-Lago and suggested that Canada could not survive economically without the United States. What Trudeau likely didn’t expect was Trump’s observation that in that case, “maybe it should just become our 51st state.” He’s also stated that “without us, there’s no way they can survive.” He’s in effect seen us as a “parasite” country. Don’t forget that Trudeau had himself said that “there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.” We do not even pass the most rudimentary test of a nation as those that are united by common descent, history, culture, or language.
At this point it’s best to quote an article by Carson Jerema, Mark Carney’s path from here is surprisingly obvious, published online in the National Post Aug. 22:
“Living next to the most powerful and richest nation in history, which was somehow uniquely benign, and, until now, largely friendly, allowed successive politicians the luxury to delude themselves into thinking Canada was morally superior. The U.S. spends money on the military and is the home of ravenous capitalism, while Canada is a nation of health care, peacekeepers and multiculturalism.
“This country’s entire national mythos since the 1960s has only been possible because the Americans had not been a genuine military threat since at least the Civil War, and possibly not since the War of 1812. “Additionally, given how wealthy the U.S. is, there has never been much pressure on Canada to ensure it is a business friendly country. No matter what happens, the massive market to the south allows us to have a minimum standard of living almost by osmosis. When twinned with the fact that Canada’s inherent French-English divide absorbs unending federal resources, you have the makings of an unserious country unconcerned with national defence and generating wealth and opportunity for citizens.
“So, instead of permitting competition and foreign investment, Canada protects cartels, often for regional political reasons, in banking, airlines, telecommunications and agriculture.
“Instead of leaning into Canada’s comparative advantage in critical minerals and oil and gas, those industries are strangled with endless taxation and regulation that can only be described as predatory.”
How many countries elsewhere in the world have had the luxury of endless squabbling over bilingualism, identity, immigration, provincial-federal issues, relations with Indigenous peoples, and so forth. Are we European, North American, multicultural, settler-colonialist, and so on. Like the Cheshire cat, we have been disappearing into a political fog.
As Scott Gilmore, a former Canadian diplomat, warned us, in an April 19, 2018 article, Canada is not a country, in Maclean’s magazine, “And when our storm arrives, we may discover that Canada was never really a country after all.”
Our “benefactor” to our south has itself run into major economic trouble and decided it can’t afford to carry us any longer. Our elites hope to see a friendlier Democratic Party president after 2028. But that may not happen. A Republican like JD Vance will be even less compassionate. And even a Democrat knows charity begins at home.

-Henry Srebrnik is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Prince Edward Island.