Opinion: As long as Trump is in office, Canada is at risk. This is why protecting ourselves is the most important thing we can do
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/as-long-as-trump-is-in-office-canada-is-at-risk-this-is-why-protecting/article_dae1e91d-4b0a-4985-a670-1761ce2596aa.html
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I’m not worried about Trump. I’m worried about Trump AND what will come after Trump.
These articles are distractions.
Canadians should be more worried about who’s in Ottawa (or rarely there, that is) and what they’re doing than who’s in the Whitehouse.
The last decade of futility was entirely brought on by Liberal policies. Economy, healthcare, crime, immigration…..it was all on us.
Fear machine in full force preparing the voters for a Spring election.
Yeah I’m not sure this is just a Trump thing now. It’s a Billionaire oligarch resource grab. Everyone better get a set of bear arms.
Getting on the EU bandwagon would be the best thing for Canada. Better food standards and we have the commodities the EU is lacking cutting off Russia. Team non-chlorinated chicken.
So instead of worrying about the very real issues at home that are completely of our own doing (after all, governments that did not have our best interest at heart were elected, then re-elected, and now we have one that looks like it could go either way), we should keep worrying about Trump like the boomers who keep pulling up the ladder behind them?
I’m good. If tariffs had this much of an impact on our economy (newsflash: they didn’t really, they just accelerated existing problems/cracks), then maybe we should look at strengthening our economy with our tax dollars, removing red tape, and generally removing barriers to us having a productive economy.
The TDS is so real and I know everyone wants a scapegoat, the real people we should be blaming are dating Katy Perry & some are still elected MPs. Jury is out on Carney.
If we want change we need to vote for it
I am more worried about who comes after the incompetent Trump. Imagine what it would be like if one of the next presidents is not only as corrupt as Trump but also competent.
Be afraid and vote Liberal – we promise we won’t continue to destroy the country like the entire last decade. This time is different. Trust us, this media outlet funded by your Liberal government /s
Trump is a symptom of the problem.
Better disarm the population & fund another countries military while calling it “our” military spending.
It’s not just Trump, it’s the whole damn republican menagerie and their oligarch masters.
Canada is at risk because of who we’ve elected ourselves
I’m in rural Alberta and some of my neighbors adore him.
It’s sickening.
Some have become a little more aware and are not bragging about wanting to join the USA but some still do.
Another hour, another post about the US on /r/Canada
🙄
Can we focus internally for once?
Americans in general in Canada is the biggest s***hole on earth. Whoever gets into office next will likely be far more hostile to us than even Trump is. It doesn’t matter if it’s a liberal or republican. People need to stop thinking they can wait out three more years.
We should start to tax their businesses properly.
Two things:
1. Trump politics arent going anywhere. I saw a very good indication of this in an article I read recently. It featured a man in Honduras who is saving up to immigrate illegally to the US, but only when Trump is gone. Seeing as a major component of his election was blowback due to unchecked illegal immigration, and the message still does not seem to be getting through to either the Democrats or the prospective illegal immigrants….its clear Trump style politics will be around for a long time.
2. Canadian efforts to “protect against Trump” is squandered effort and showboating. Most of the damage Canada has taken over the last few years is self inflicted, domestically. The country has liquidated the value of its working and middle class and has nothing to show for it. This was going full steam ahead before Trump and hasnt changed course. All the things that our decedents of the future were depending on us for, like factories and infrastructure, is going to end up having never got built.
It’s not just Trump. As long as we are not acting and trading as an independent nation we are at risk. Controversial thought, CUSMA puts Canada at risk
I can’t be the only one who thinks it’s naive to talk about this as if it ends with Trump.
The US went from ‘big friend that can be a bit of a dick’ to hostile remarkably fast and we’d be foolish to think that’s because of one man, or that his absence will end it.
More broadly, there’s a call for unity in this piece that I think is important but practically speaking I’m not sure how we get there.
My life sits on the divide, I grew up in a rural conservative area and moved to ‘the city’ at 20. My father’s family have been here for quite some time, while my mother’s family were WWII refugees. Though my extended family on both sides is quite conservative, my parents were NDP voters their entire lives.
My view of what Canada is sits in both worlds and I feel like I can relate to grievances expressed across the political spectrum.
I do think finding common ground is important if we want to retain our sovereignty but I don’t know where we even start.
If the USA elected Trump twice. There is no reason to believe that they could never elect someone like him again or worse in the future.
So why are provincial trade barriers still in place?
It’s a complex issue that I might have entered into. Small town Canada is dying as a whole too. To me, the CBC Canada crowd represents largely metro, urban liberal voters. A crowd that is understandably ignorant of the reality that Canada is a resource producing nation, and that these resources often come from the rural resource outposts that are easily ignored. The idea that you can extract anything and everything from under our ground or in our backyard, but limit benefits after that has PO’d a lot of Canadians. Albertans seem more disenfranchised was my point
Perhaps it is time for Canada to get some nukes as a deterrent to a possible invasion
Jfc Canadians are stupid, worry about our own country
Trump just exposed Canada vulnerabilities. In true Canadian fashion we blame him for it instead of the people in charge. Elbows up!
OR, hear me out – Sending the white house extra greasy cheeseburgers with canadian back bacon. Big ol’ slices. Either he starts to love the gift burgers, orrrr…