It would be far too easy for me to make this into a politically charged, profanity laden tirade. Even after the last article I posted where I cautioned on the loss of critical thinking and a need to accept facts that don't always fit the narrative that we subscribe too. We all have subjective truths, regardless of what others might think. I think cereal should be its own spot on the food pyramid where as my wife could not care less if she never ate cereal again.
That being said, I am a Canadian. Not a immigrant, a full on 4th generation Canadian, and the feeling of palpable tenseness that has permeated my country over the past few weeks has been nothing short of stress inducing for a lot of people. The sovereignty of our nation is under attack. Donald Trump (here after referred to as Dump, because its my site and I can be childish if I want) has been regularly verbally undermining on sovereignty. He refers to us as a 51st state and our Prime Minister as Governor. He perpetuates lies about trade deficits that are flat out wrong and can be proven so with a 10 second google search. He lies about the amount of drugs that come across the 49th parallel into the United States while ignoring how many guns are run out of the USA into both Canada and Mexico. Beyond that he constantly lies to the American people about the real harm that tariffs have, declaring that he used them in the past to great success. Of course he left out the part where they were used strategically and that the President that came after him removed them (on Canada) because they were patently stupid. Perhaps the most egregious of all is the lie that he can simply slap tariffs on everything and the supply and manufacturing chain will immediately rework itself to be within the USA in months. It's a level of stupid that I am not going to comment on because I could write five pages on how those chains don't just reorganize themselves in a matter of months.
I want to address the other government officials in the United States that are urging Dump to drop this bullshit and go back to the way things were. It's not going to happen. The United States has proven itself to be unreliable and unstable at best. We don't trust you anymore. Our government is moving to find other supply chains because the Canadian people don't want to live at the whims of a orange man child that has the intelligence quotient of a pencil crayon.
He negotiated a trade deal that he said was the best ever than four years later said it was ripping America off and basically said he was going to violate it using some executive power that was spacious at best and just plain abuse at worse. Meaning that the integrity of your government literally isn't worth the paper they write anything on. Beyond that the other branches of your government, which exist as a check on Dumpy's power seem to be more than happy to let him violate the constitution in any way he and Elon Musk see fit. Don't get me started on Elon Musk.
The United States government has lost all credibility. We do not want to be in the United States, your country is a dumpster fire and we want no part of it. We boo your anthem as a way to show that we simply do not want it to be our anthem. We reject Dump's rhetoric and we reject your annexation plans. You may be able to railroad us in a fight but remember one thing, taking a country and holding a country are two very different things.
We didn't start this fight but we will fight. We will go down swinging. America forever ruined this relationship, we will never trust you again.
That's enough of this. Hopefully I can move on to something more focused on what this site was for.