EASY CHOICE . . . RUN A COUNTRY WITH A SCALPEL OR USE A SLEDGE HAMMER:
Maybe I’m A Fool Believing That Knowing What Our Leaders Are Thinking Is More Important Than Not Knowing. But How Many Times Have we Heard the Phrase – Just Trust Me . . . Just Before Oblivion Strikes?
And How Many Leaders Worldwide Over the Millennium were Going to Change the World all on their Own, Because they Knew Better than Everyone Else, Before The Changes Came-Back To Bite The Masses On The Ass?
French Journalist/Politician/Historian & Staunch Admirer of the New Found American Union. . . Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 – 1859) – Wrote Over A Century Ago – (To Paraphrase) . . . No Matter How Charismatic A Leader May Be, He Cannot Lead A Nation In A Direction The People Are Not Prepared To Follow.
In Other Words . . . The Nation Sets The Mood Waiting For Whomever It Will Be To Lead.
The LEFT, No Matter How They Define Themselves . . . Marxists, Liberals, Greens – Etc . . . Have all Had their Plans to Solve all the Ills of the World . . . if Only they Had the Power, And Once In A Position Of Power, They Destroyed What They Had Promised To Fix.
THE MORE I READ ABOUT POLITICAL HISTORY . . . THE MORE FRIGHTENING IT GETS:
I’m Getting Tired Of Global Political Shenanigans, which Aren’t a Game, Especially Knowing How Damaged People are Becoming Worldwide, Through Wars Fought on Lines of Religion, Past Socio/Political Grievances, Territorial Ambitions . . . And Maybe Worst Of All – Narcissistic Avarice.
All Of Which Was Not Our North American Problem – Until It Recently Has Become Our Problem.
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS . . . NO MAN IS AN ISLAND:
In The Early 1600’s . . . Over 400 Years Ago – British Poet John Donne Wrote His Iconic Masterpiece Sonnet – For Whom The Bell Tolls . . . which Explained How the World was So Interconnected, that even the Passing of an Individual John Donne Knew Nothing About, was in His Mind a Loss to Humanity – Because as He Wrote – To Paraphrase . . . Like All Of Us . . . We Are Part Of Humanities’ Mechanism.
Donne’s Sonnet Ends . . . “Therefore, Send Not To Know For Whom The Bell Tolls, It Tolls For Thee”.
I Don’t Know which Brilliant Writer Coined the Expression Concerning the Chaos Theory . . . The Flutter Of The Wing Of A Butterfly Disturbs A Distant Star . . . Meaning that Life is so Interconnected that Even the Most Minute Effect Invites a Counter Effect, Much Like Sir Isaac Newton Told Us . . . Circa 400-Years Ago . . . “To Every Action There Is Always Opposed An Equal Reaction”.
I Write This So We Should All Understand – Policies Invite Like Or Counter Policies, Much of which Have the Capacity of Delivering Serious Consequences that Could be Incredibly Good or Disastrously Bad.
What The LEFT Did To Us Yesterday . . . We Can Do To Them Today – But Should We?
It is No Secret that the Global LEFT Has Made a Mess of Much of the World, which Under all Circumstances Must be Fixed Before the Only Options Left to Undo What was Done . . . Will End In Extreme Misery.
But Not Fixing What They’ve Done . . . Is Not An Option.
So . . . Do we Fix the Misery with a Scalpel – or Do we Go at it with a Sledgehammer? . . . Which is the Question I Have No Answer For . . . But Fix-It We Must!
BUT HOW DO YOU FIX WHAT ISN’T BROKEN?
I Heard Trump On Fox News Just After Lunch On Thursday (Yesterday), when He Said that America Subsidizes Canada to the Tune of $200-Billion Dollars Per Year.
At First He was Saying that Canada Ripped off America to the Tune of $150-Billion Dollars Per Year In Canadian Trade Surpluses, Which is No Less True than the $200-Billion Subsidy.
I Heard Trump Say Yesterday . . . How America Doesn’t Need Anything from Canada. Not Steel, Neither Aluminum, Not Oil, Gas or Electricity – Nor Lumber.
In Fact, Trump Said America Needs Nothing from Canada . . . How Do You Think That Makes Canadians Feel . . . Especially Knowing Otherwise?
Again I Heard Trump Refer To Canada As America’s FIFTY-FIRST State (Yesterday), Almost as if that Should Already be a Done Deal. Canada is a Sovereign Nation, Not a State, Region or Territory of any Nation . . . Is Trump That Jingoistic To Assume That Canada Should Roll Over For One Of His Beautiful Deals Because That Is What He Wants?
The Belief that America is an Act of God Goes Back to the Signing of the American Declaration of Independence, Known as Divine Providence. And that the Annexation of Canada to Join the United States of America by Agreement or by Force is Known as Manifest Destiny.
IS THIS WHAT TRUMP’S STRATEGY FOR CANADA IS ALL ABOUT?
If I Was Greenland . . . I Think I Should Begin To Worry . . . Trump Said that Greenland is a Sovereign State, But Will Become A Part Of America . . . “One Way Or Another” . . . What Do You Suppose That Means?
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND . . . AND NEITHER IS A SOVEREIGN NATION:
All Of My Friends Are Conservative. All of My Canadian Friends Supported Trump & Looked Forward to Trump Setting an Example for Restrained Government, while Creating a Playing Field that Would Encourage Canada to Become Much More like Canada Used to Be, Especially With The Probable Election Of Pierre Poilievre.
But Not So Much Anymore.
My Friends in Both Countries (Canada/US) are Worried . . . Because None of us Can Understand Any-Of-This. It’s Not About Fentanyl, It Never Was, Even though Vancouver Has a Huge Asian (Chinese) Population and is the Canadian Center for Fentanyl Production, Accounting For A Smattering Of Fentanyl That Crosses From Canada Into America, which is as Much a Problem for Addiction & Drug Related Deaths in Canada . . . as it is in the United States of America.
Illegal Immigration From Canada Into The United States Is Also A Red Herring, Compared to the Tens of Millions of Illegal Immigrants that Invaded America at the Behest of the American Government Under Biden . . . Within The Last 4-Years Through America’s Southern Border With Mexico.
Need Proof? . . . Trump Put Teeth Into Border Security On The Southern Border (Mexico) – Not on the Northern Border (Canada) . . . And Illegal Immigration According To Trump Has Virtually Become Non-Existent.
NO-ONE LIKES A BULLY . . . NO-ONE LIKES UNCERTAINTY:
From Trump’s Tariff Strategy, Which In Many Cases Has Real Merit, Trump is Not Making Friends, And Whether You Agree With Me Or Not, Just Like What John Donne Wrote 400-Years Ago – No Man Is An Island, and I’ll Add to That – Neither is a Nation. We all Need Friends we Can Count-On . . . From The Most Basic Relationships To The Most Critical Challenges.
Right Now . . . As I Still Support All That Trump Is Trying To Do To End The LEFTIST War On Freedoms, for President Trump’s Quest to Drain the Swamp, Make a Runaway Justice System Come to Heel, and His Mission to Curtail the Politicization of all Manner of Society . . . Canada Is Not The Enemy.
Canada Is The Best Friend Any Country Can Pray-For To Have As Its Neighbor.
Best Regards . . . Howard Galganov
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Both Republicans and Liberals want to reindustrialize the U.S. to compete with China. Where will investment go—Canada at 1.5% of the U.S. economy or the U.S. at 25% of Canada’s? Will new plants be built in Quebec or Indiana? Canada sees this as a fight, but it’s about siphoning money. It’s not about Trump, but you make it about him. Canada fights with darts, while the U.S. uses missiles. I used to like your stuff but that doesn’t matter to you either.
And Exactly How Is Canada Trying To Steal American Jobs? – HG:
Everyone should take a big deep breath for a moment. The stock market is taking a much needed reset. Canada is not being picked on by the US. The US for to many years has been the doormat for other nations in terms of trade deficits. US is pushing hard at this moment to return to our manufacturing base We are the engine of the world financially. It is time to resume our dominance and get back to internal and external investors within our borders, the 2 trillion is just a start.Be a bit patient
Exactly. great column. I wonder if Vladimir Trump is jealous of Putin and his attempt to absorb the Ukraine and has a vision of taking over Canada without firing a shot? so he would fulfil his prophecy of being the second coming while grabbing all the resources we have that he “doesn’t need”.
Eyes on the Prize…. ISRAEL. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.
It’s misdirection. Trump plays things close to the chest. Keep the opponents off balance. While dairy tariffs R menisco in the overall mix, it’s not fair to Canadian citizens and/or American citizens for Canada to terrify our goods and not American tariffs, their goods period Canada has some real political problems. They need to clear up. Once that’s done, things will probably change.
To those disappointed in Trump: Trump received in Votes ALMOST Double Canada’s Population. I traveled on my job all over the United States and made MANY friends. I have sent these editorials to one or another in all but five states. I am now receiving replies from several that is disappointing, it shows an arousal of resentment towards Canadians, because of accusational comments. NOT GOOD❗ PS…..Be Patient & Reap the BENEFITS❗
Thanks for the historical review. My head is spinning from all the wise sayings over the centuries. Is there a creator God? When will His Son return? Geographically Israel is important! How much friction must there be on Earth before enough is enough? Only one thing is eternally important. What does one accept and believe?
Going back to those days of High School, and over the years, and having problems with people and with girlfriends and with jobs, and when working for Sam The Record Man (in Toronto), etc….life would sometimes become unbearable. But I always had the ability to be hopeful and to fight back and to never give up. My Father always had a saying: THIS TOO SHALL PASS. /// ps: He’s right. I have kidney stones so I oughta know !!!
Perhaps President Trump is actually trying to save Canada from itself. Look at what your left has done and is continually doing to your country. How many Chinese companies now operate in Canada? How many Canadians still care about Israel? Your own RCMP testified that Canada has over 4,000 (yes, thousand) separate crime groups dealing fentanyl (Canada Free Press). Maybe this is his way of trying to help you and to keep the USA safe.
James Dean from Oakville needs to do some research about President Trump. I detest the fact you called him Vladimir Trump. Sit down fella and wait until this is over, you will be ashamed of yourself.
America is a great Country and Americans have been great friends until President Trump incorrectly maligned the well-working economies of the past, which he largely designed in the North American Trade Pact. Canada almost always buys American goods. A good example would be the single engine F-35 fighter, rather than the more suitable for our vast, frozen north, the twin-engine Eurofighter Typhoon. But we bought American. The US and Canadian inter-trading has worked well. Lets keep it that way.
President Trumps treatment of Canada has been nothing short of punitive. So called “ Reciprocal trade “ , has had nothing to do with it . We were supposed to have a Usmca trade agreement. Remember that ? He signed it. Too Canadians his signature is now worthless and obviously he can’t be trusted. There are many states around the great lakes that are not in a deficit position with Canada. Americans too will feel the pain and some republicans might not vote for that tax cut. Potential karma
I agree Howard. I am a Canadian . I have been a Trump advocate since 2015, because I believe we (North America) are headed down a dangerous path on climate alarmism, debt load, Wokeism, decline of the nuclear family/Christian values; and the rise of the China/Russia/Iran/NKO alliance as a threat to our Western society and freedom. This past month, Trump has me thinking that he has gone off the deep end, crazy, dementia and I am worried about the unrest he is creating throughout the world.
What everyone said.
I have an American neighbour who settled here in Cote-Saint-Luc, QC, several years ago. He was originally from Albany, NY. He is a great guy and respected Doctor who mentioned to me at breakfast this morning: “Donald Trump strikes me as someone who is in the beginning stages of Dimensia and suffering from Narcisistic Personality Disorder. Just an opinion. Enjoy your pancakes.”
Hi Howard. According to Keean Bexte (the Counter Signal), Trudeau left his office to boos from the crowd this morning and broke down and cried when he met Mary Simon to resign. A fitting end to the reign to a posturing fool who tried to destroy our country. His WEF unelected replacement and former advisor promises no better. Look at Carney’s mouth and eyes when he talks and decide if you would believe a word he says. Slippery.
” If this is what manifest destiny will be about —- count me in.” Where have I heard those words before? Just aching for a friend.
James Moffat, exactly! As for Trump and his recent actions, we are disappointed, but still hopeful he will recognize the importance of us Canadians and succeed in his endeavors without ruining Canada.
When DemRats & Biden did ALL their DIRTY laundering of American dollars on shady deals nothing! Trillions spent Americans in debit! Trump is Vocal he gets attention BUT he will get AMERICA Back on Track…SAVING Trillions of Dollars for All Americans. Where is our PM standing for Canadians…China United Front(terrorist) set up in B.C…money laundering, road an belt China is our threat…Palestinian Hamas is a threat, Riots on Canadians. These are Terrorist! I’ll take Trump over (WEF) CARNEY!
Canadians not ripping off USA because there is trade surplus in our favour. The ratio of Cdn to USA is 10:1 means ten Americans per Canadian. 1 Canadian buys America product to 10 Americans buying a Cdn product. If Trump wants to reverse the balance, stop making stuff Canadians buy. TDS a.k.a ant-Trumpers but I think it now applies to Trump himself who has pissed off the world. To trade, it’s no good Trump having all the $$$ and we have none. Tariffs will really hurt Canada, & we will survive.
My hope is that Trump will not further alienate our wonderful Canadian neighbors. Our two countries need to support each other.
IMHO (hope) just the fact that DJT is sealing the MX border, says he wants allies of Canadians and is waiting for your leader PP to take charge and be of like mind on MCGA to make a strong partnership, not to take on problems to drain America & Canada as Obama/Biden/Trudeau have done. Here’s to DJT, hope his health, physically and mentally holds. God Bless.
I just hope and pray this all ends soon and in an amicable way between our countries. The growing animosity is troubling and sad. I noted that this situation is so “front and center” that your usual mentioning of this being the middle of the month, inviting those who are able to support your website, was missing. God bless Israel. God bless America. God bless Canada. And may God work in our hearts to produce praise, thanksgiving and honor to God, no matter the situation.
I continue to support Trump. I think there is much that we don’t know, yet. Trudeau’s resignation is just the beginning of what needs to happen in Canada. But I do know I support Canadians, do not want to force statehood on Canada, and hope that neither Americans nor Canadians are manipulated by the same dangerous, evil forces that tried (and continue to try) to bring America down.
Can. has a “reverse tariff” on US producers. It’s our 70 cent $. This subsidizes Cdn. goods by giving a discount to US buyer of Cdn. goods of 40% compared to an in US buyer of US goods. Trump’s counter tariffs of 25% on Cdn. export only offsets a part of the 40%. When US buyers can buy Cdn. products for 40% lower cost than in US, is Trump not right to put 25% tariff on Cdn. goods to level the playing field. If the Cdn $ = the US $, there might be NO need for US tariffs on Cdn. export goods.
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