Yes, Canadians by and large do not understand our actual circumstance. What is more concerning is that I don’t know if our leadership does.
Realpolitik will determine what happens to our country. Every time we make noises about building pipelines to BC in order to feed oil to China (the United States’ emerging geopolitical rival) as a *solution* for the USA demanding we get on side we just make our situation worse.
Why, at this point, don’t people understand that the success of environmentalist groups in Canada preventing pipelines has been predicated upon US gov’t money laundered to create well-funded opposition to those resource projects?
Why don’t they understand that our having actual agents of China sitting in parliament is of concern to the United States? Or, for that matter, that we’re allowing the PRC to operate branch offices in Canada whose sole purpose is to intimidate the diaspora into supporting pro PRC policies?
Or the wreckage that is our immigration policy and the attendant security threats to the US (and ourselves, for that matter)?
The Americans pay attention to what happens in their backyard and we haven’t been a reliable partner in recent decades. Add to that Trudeau’s personal fecklessness and petulanece and I’m not at all surprised Trump is at this.
It's always refreshing to hear an honest, no-nonsense viewpoint about Canada from a Canadian. I wrote an article on my opinion as an American on Trump's tariff threats on Canada, because I read so many comments by Canadians hysterically mad about it. ~ Trudeau's party resembles the radical left in America. They have no common sense, and thrive on emotions and virtue signaling. Fortunately, more and more Canadians realize that Canada is in trouble. My husband and I have a summer cottage on the Georgian Bay where we go to escape Florida's summer heat. (We are residents of Florida.) Many Canadians tell me they don't support Trudeau but are afraid to say it. We have a silent majority in the US, people who support Trump but are afraid to say it due to leftist backlash. However, with Trump back in the White House, more Americans are coming out of the closet and voicing their support for Trump. Is the same happening with Canadians who dislike Trudeau? He did step down, did he not? https://open.substack.com/pub/patriotcolleen/p/trumps-tariff-triumph-an-americans?r=555m81&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Trudeau indicated that he intended to step down upon the conclusion of an internal Liberal Party election, including candidates who are not currently MP's. He is still the PM. Unfortunately I am not seeing additional people coming out against Trudeau and the Liberal party.
Because our overbearing bureaucratic states are failing in the West there must always be external enemies (Russia, Trump) and internal vilification of those not sufficiently taking their shots or flying the flag at the right time. Attract and distract.
Not a lot of discussion, outside of Sam Cooper and a few alternative media outlets, of the leaked British Columbia internal audit on safe supply. From 2022 to 2024 there were over 20 million doses given out. However, there are only around 5000 clients for the opioids. The audit found criminal networks syphoning off the drugs for profit.
Yes, Canadians by and large do not understand our actual circumstance. What is more concerning is that I don’t know if our leadership does.
Realpolitik will determine what happens to our country. Every time we make noises about building pipelines to BC in order to feed oil to China (the United States’ emerging geopolitical rival) as a *solution* for the USA demanding we get on side we just make our situation worse.
Why, at this point, don’t people understand that the success of environmentalist groups in Canada preventing pipelines has been predicated upon US gov’t money laundered to create well-funded opposition to those resource projects?
Why don’t they understand that our having actual agents of China sitting in parliament is of concern to the United States? Or, for that matter, that we’re allowing the PRC to operate branch offices in Canada whose sole purpose is to intimidate the diaspora into supporting pro PRC policies?
Or the wreckage that is our immigration policy and the attendant security threats to the US (and ourselves, for that matter)?
The Americans pay attention to what happens in their backyard and we haven’t been a reliable partner in recent decades. Add to that Trudeau’s personal fecklessness and petulanece and I’m not at all surprised Trump is at this.
It's always refreshing to hear an honest, no-nonsense viewpoint about Canada from a Canadian. I wrote an article on my opinion as an American on Trump's tariff threats on Canada, because I read so many comments by Canadians hysterically mad about it. ~ Trudeau's party resembles the radical left in America. They have no common sense, and thrive on emotions and virtue signaling. Fortunately, more and more Canadians realize that Canada is in trouble. My husband and I have a summer cottage on the Georgian Bay where we go to escape Florida's summer heat. (We are residents of Florida.) Many Canadians tell me they don't support Trudeau but are afraid to say it. We have a silent majority in the US, people who support Trump but are afraid to say it due to leftist backlash. However, with Trump back in the White House, more Americans are coming out of the closet and voicing their support for Trump. Is the same happening with Canadians who dislike Trudeau? He did step down, did he not? https://open.substack.com/pub/patriotcolleen/p/trumps-tariff-triumph-an-americans?r=555m81&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Trudeau indicated that he intended to step down upon the conclusion of an internal Liberal Party election, including candidates who are not currently MP's. He is still the PM. Unfortunately I am not seeing additional people coming out against Trudeau and the Liberal party.
Because our overbearing bureaucratic states are failing in the West there must always be external enemies (Russia, Trump) and internal vilification of those not sufficiently taking their shots or flying the flag at the right time. Attract and distract.
Not a lot of discussion, outside of Sam Cooper and a few alternative media outlets, of the leaked British Columbia internal audit on safe supply. From 2022 to 2024 there were over 20 million doses given out. However, there are only around 5000 clients for the opioids. The audit found criminal networks syphoning off the drugs for profit.
Good analysis!
Very well said Russell.
Thank you Donna!