Treasonous Talk?

 

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Donald Trump appears to actually be serious about annexing Canada. He tweeted about it again several times on Christmas Day. So much for those who dismissed as a joke. Ha ha. He’s pushing the Overton window. Some Canadians on X are predictably getting vitriolic in response.

For my part, I think it is a good thing for all of us in Canada if Trump and the US administration shows interest in annexing Canada.

Justin Trudeau began clearly acting dictatorially in about 2021. I said then that the ultimate guarantee of Canadians’ freedom was the US: they would, one hoped, not tolerate it going too far. They would invade to save us. But I was worried then that they might not, that they might not care enough what happened to Canada, and would not want a large body of left-leaning voters. After all, they let Cuba go Communist.

So it is great news that the US really is interested. 

This holds Canadian governments’ jackboots to the fire; we now have a competitive marketplace for Canadians’ allegiances. Future Canadian governments will have to think twice about riding roughshod over the citizenry as they have been doing increasingly—even if they can rig the elections. The central government will also need to be more careful about bullying any one province, like Alberta. An individual province too could opt to leave for the US. In most cases, splitting Canada in two.

It is useful as a threat. And if it actually happened, it would be nothing catastrophic. We are culturally almost the same. I was just watching a video of the ball drop in Times Square. In earlier years, and I imagine still mostly now, everyone in Canada was glued to the set to watch this same scene every New Years: acknowledging that our shared culture was centred there. And at the moment the new year flashed, the unmistakable strains of “Auld Lang Syne” played by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians at the Roosevelt ballroom. “The sweetest sound this side of heaven.” We were and are one culture, awkwardly divided by a hardening border. Should we be, any more than East and West Germany, or North and South Vietnam, or North and South Korea? The conflict that kept us apart, an argument between empire and republic, has been a dead letter for many generations.

 Lower taxes, batter protection for our rights, greater mobility rights and career opportunities, and better security against any real foreign threats. And some families no longer separated.

Trump is doing Canadians a big favour.