The 51st State

 

Tucker Carlson has a large and enthusiastic audience. It seems likely his suggestion that Canada needs to be liberated will generate some attention in the US.

Which causes me to ponder: if the US invaded Canada, how would Canadians react? Would American GIs be greeted as liberators?

A few years ago, I would have thought the idea absurd. But not so much anymore. I noticed that the Freedom Convoy supporters, and attendees at other protests since, have been flying "friendship" flags that combine the Canadian and American flags. Why this at a protest—unless it is a call for unification?

There is no political party in Canada that supports the idea. You might think this proves there is no popular support. Yet that is neither here nor there. Political parties in Canada have a history of withholding choices from the public. Meech Lake, abortion, gay marriage, aboriginal rights,  come to mind. There are some matters the Canadian elite does not want people voting on.

The working class stiffs in the Freedom Convoy are probably aware that they pay a premium for Canadian independence. American wages are higher. The American cost of living is lower. The work opportunities are more plentiful. 

For the working man, and for the poor, there needs to be some good reason for Canada.

The original justification for English Canada was to preserve the ties to the monarchy, and to British traditions. This justification has, however, been hollowing out ever since 1867. Nobody thinks of Canada any longer as particularly “British.” No; it is now “multicultural,” and the elite generally dislike anything British. Down to renaming streets and schools.

Yet the old rationale h not been replaced by a distinct Canadian identity. This has happened in French Canada, and there was a concerted effort to develop a distinct Canadian culture beginning with D’Arcy McGee, who foresaw the need, and continuing up to the 1960s or so. 

Then, just as it seemed to be coming together, the elite crushed it. 

It has been destroyed by “multiculturalism,” now actually enshrined in the Canadian constitution. Any authentically Canadian culture is now condemned as "racist," or "white supremacist"; Justin Trudeau declares that in Canada, “there is no mainstream.”

With no Britishness, and no local culture, there is no reason for Canada to exist as a separate nation. The economics are entirely in favour of joining the USA. At the same time, this seems increasingly advisable to protect our civil rights from rogue government. Not to mention protection from less friendly and more oppressie foreign powers, like China.

Our government and our elite may have murdered Canada.