BEFORE THERE WAS CANDIDATE TRUMP – THERE WAS MP PIERRE POILIEVRE:
Long Before Trump Exploded On The Political Scene In 2016 . . . Poilievre Was Blasting The LEFT.
Pierre Poilievre Has Been An Active Conservative Member Of Parliament Since 2004 (21-Years), as a Back Bencher (Member Without Portfolio), a Cabinet Minister, an Opposition Member of Parliament, And Most Recently As The Leader Of The Conservative Party In Opposition.
I WILL GIVE PRAISE WHERE PRAISE IS DUE & CONSTERNATION NO LESS:
We Can All Agree That America Is The Biggest, Richest, Most Powerful Nation In The World . . . Most Probably the Biggest, Richest & Most Powerful Nation Ever.
So How Did America Become such a Global Behemoth if the Whole World Had Been Ripping-Off America Forever, As Has Been Stated By President Donald Trump?
And If Canada Is Such A Worthless Neighbor To The United States, where Trump Has Repeatedly Said . . . America Needs Nothing From Canada – Not Energy, Not Agriculture, Not Steel, Not Aluminum, Not Automobiles – Etc . . . How Could It Be That Canada Has Caused So Much Hardship To America In The Mind Of Donald Trump?
America Has Been Severely Mis-Governed For Generations . . . Before Ronald Reagan & After Ronald Reagan. Before Trump’s First Presidency & After Trump’s First Presidency . . . And Under Democrats As Well As Republicans.
So How Is That Canada’s Fault?
Canada is Not Responsible For America’s Mega Trillion Dollar Debt ($36-Trillion) . . . Not Including City, State & Personal Debts. Canada Didn’t Spend America’s Future Recklessly on Unimaginable Graft. Canada Cannot be Held Responsible for Biden’s Mass Immigration or Flood of Deadly Drugs into America from South of the American Border.
Canada Did Not Participate In Lawfare Against American Conservative Thinkers.
While It Is True That Canada Is No Angel, it is Also True that Canada is as Far Removed as Possible from Being a Devil.
We In Canada Have Plenty Of Our Own Problems Of Our Own Making, Penalizing us Canadians Far More than it Impacts on the United States of America. This Must Be Solved In Canada By Canadians, which Should Begin to Happen with the Election of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
But To Suggest – That Canada Is Somehow A Beggar Country Ripping-Off America, while Fentanyl is Flooding into America through America’s Northern Border – is Not Just a Smear, it’s an Absolute Lie – And Is Reprehensible . . . When American Authorities Begrudgingly Agree That Less Than 1% Of Fentanyl That Goes Into America Comes From Canada.
Do You Remember When The Claim Was That Canada Needed To Be Tariffed . . . Until Canada Closes our Border to America from the Scourge of Fentanyl & Illegal Immigration? Sure You Do, Because That Was The Whole Raison D’etre (Purpose) For The Tariffs.
But Now That We Know From The American-Side, that Illegal Immigration & Fentanyl from Canada Represented Less Than 1% of What was Going into America . . . It’s Become Something Else Entirely – Namely . . . America Subsidizing Canada To The Tune Of $200-Billion Dollars Per Year.
But That’s Not True Either . . . Not Even Close to Being True, Especially When the American Finance Department Says that the Canadian Trade Surplus . . . Was Only In The $60-Billion Dollar Range.
But When you Take the Sale of Canadian Energy (Oil, Gas & Electricity) to America Out of the Mix, Especially at Discounted Prices Compared to the World Market Price, America Has A Substantial Trade Surplus Over Canada.
What Is Not Under Dispute . . . Canada Is America’s Single Largest Export Market.
We In Canada . . . Buy More American Goods than any Other Country on the Planet. And We in Canada Make More Cross Border Visits into America for Business and/or Pleasure than All Other Nations in the World Combined . . .
TRUMP LIT THE FUSE FOR THE CANADIAN LOONIES TO GO WILD:
I Would Have Expected A Comment Like This By An Ignorant Jerk. But Not From Steve Doocy.
This Morning (March 26, 2025) Fox News Had A Report . . . that More than $2-Billion Tourist Dollars Have Just Been Lost to America from Canadians, who Have Either Cancelled their American Travel Plans, are Making Different Travel Plans Other than to America, and Have No Further Interest in Crossing the Canada/US Border to Do Same-Day-Shopping & Dining in the United States of America because of the Tariff Threats and the Insults to Canadian Sovereignty.
Steve Doocy’s Comment On This Disaster Was – “Good – More For Us”. In Other Words . . . Let the Canadians Stay Home – Who Needs Them? . . . Which is very Much Akin to Other Insults Against Canada that I’ve Recently Heard on Fox News.
Perhaps Steve Doocy Should Tell That To The Millions Of Americans, who Live on the US/Canada Border, Who Survive Almost Exclusively On Canadian Tourist Dollars.
Or to the Millions of Canadians who Spend their Entire Winters, or a Huge Portion of their Winters in the United States of America, Predominantly in Places Like Florida & Arizona.
Where Anne, The Falconater, The Mac Attack & I Spent Our Last Two Winters At Myrtle Beach, We Have Been Informed that at Least 50-Canadian RVers Have Cancelled their Deposits for Next Year. Imagine That The Average Canadian RV Family Spends As Much As $20,000 Per Season . . . That’s A Lot Of Money.
If I Had To Guess . . . There are Probably More than 100-Canadian RVers in this Park Throughout the Winter. Anne & I Are Certainly Not Cancelling . . . but Given the New American Travel Hoops Being Placed Upon Canadians who Plan to Spend More than 30-Days in the United States at a Time, I Don’t Entirely Know What To Expect for Next Season.
And That’s With Our NEXUS Cards . . . Which Are Special Internal North American Passports Issued by Homeland Security for Canadians who Subject themselves to Rigorous Investigation, Finger Prints & Iris Scans, which We Canadians Pay For – Who are Defined by Homeland Security as . . . Most Trusted Travelers.
I Guess We’re Not Such Trusted Travelers Any-More.
WHAT STARTED AS A SERIES OF STUPID REMARKS HAS BECOME MUCH MORE:
Words Have Consequences . . . Especially Insulting, Hurtful & Harmful Words.
I Don’t Know What Trump is Going to Do on April 2, 2025 Vis-À-Vis His Tariff Threats . . . But Much Of The Damage Has Already Been Done.
And Even If Trump Somehow Blows It Off . . . by Saying Canada is No Longer Being Charged, or just Some of the Charges will Apply because of Canadian Compliance, or Because He (Trump) will Wait Until Canada’s Election is Finished and a New Prime Minister is Elected Before He Decides What His Action Plan will Be . . . It Will Be Too Little Too Late.
There are No Shortage of Canadian Jerks Ready to Go to Virtual War Against America, Because they are Ignorant, Stupid and Ill Informed, even if they are in the Minority . . . There Are Enough Loons On Both Sides Of The Border To Make A Bad Situation Worse.
And If Steve Doocy Of Fox News Could Say . . . “Good – More For Us” . . . Katy Bar The Door.
Best Regards . . . Howard Galganov
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Maybe time to talk about the millions the USA spends to defend Canada.
This verbal confrontation caused by DJT’s words is more than bothersome. The one thing I’ve never liked about DJT is when he chooses to demean someone, esp. publicly. But a neighbor nation who has always (as far as I know) worked with/along side the US, even in war, is not one to verbally make an enemy. I truly hope things will be resolved once Pierre Poilievre is elected.
comment from Shelley? What is the US defending us from? Thanks
i use to watch FOX news until the ignorant remarks of people like Shaun Hannity and now, the equally ignorant Peter Doocy, both slick New Yorkers, gave me cause to strike Fox off my watch list, after 25 years of loyalty. I would like these ignoramuses to preach their advice, “Canadians are not needed in the US”, to business people in Great Falls and Kalispell Montana, Couer d’alene, Idaho and Spokane, Wash. These cities are suffering bigtime from stupid politically laced diatribe.
I wish we weren’t being manipulated to be “us” against “you.” I am sure there are things that need to be addressed. But to pit Americans against Canadians is ludicrous. I thought that Trudeau’s “leadership” left much to be desired—in a word, he stunk. Now I look forward to having Pierre Poilievre and his conservative politics lead Canada to a much better future. And most Americans will cheer Canada on.
Why do we have to do this? Two countries that really need each other. No Tariffs needed, Very private one on one talks to arrive at who needs what and how to make it work. The citizens in both countries need each other. The Government of both countries need to back off and let the people co-exist. This back and forth is so hateful and backbiting. Why do we have to do this?
Please. Enough of the “America is mean, oh poor Canada” whine. It’s been overdone. We all heard. And continue to hear. None of us know what’s going on in private. State / explain your opposition but stop whining.
Lived on the U.S. side of Windsor/Detroit boundary most of my life. Grew up listening to CKLW. I think Trump is great, but in regard to this, I wish he would just STFU.
Howard’s RV hosts will have to charge more rent to make up for the shortfall if the BS continues. I predict an end to the nonsense by end of May.
it’s coming soon, economic and monetary union, Canada retains its borders, health care, elections and Identity
Kudos to Robyn Berry. Some of us have tried, to no avail. Altho it’s apparent some only Love-To-Hate. To all that have turned on Shaun Hannity, Peter Doocy, and Trump, watch news other than Fox. Stop visiting or looking down to the USA. Stick your nose in the Ice of the North Pole❗
Tin foil hat Carney is the Cdn version of US kackling Kamala running on the sky will fall/democracy is doomed if Trump/Poilievre is elected. US voters saw through the BS, so will Cdn voters. Anti-Trump Carney and Co are not the answer, they created the problem. Tariffs normally come and go quietly. No big deal! They can be very good for Cdn bus. to seek other markets. Friendships are more important than a few dollars. Stop complaining, vote for change. Can badly needs a new Gov too.
I agree 99% except RV-ing, trips & vacations in USA for now. Canada has lots to offer even in winter as you know. In the short term till this nonsense is over we must show Trump we can fight back by buying here and from offshore. I used to go regulary over to Massena but the toll has been increased to $10.50 round trip and with the ROE it’s not worth it. I believe in free trade, no tariffs and buy where the price is right. Competition is the best incentive to control prices and innovation.
I grew up in Florida as a child, and have nothing but fond memories of our seasonal Canadian “snowbirds”! I now live on the south shore of Lake Superior in the UP of Michigan year round, in close proximity to Canada, and still don’t see any reason to change my opinion of Canadians. Don’t let politics become “personal”–It’s not going to change my mind, and it shouldn’t change anyone else’s!
Before you start pointing the finger at Canada, start by learning the name , of the capital of Canada. Trump’s foreign policy is on the same level. This is going to cost us , but it’s going to cost Americans too. Giving the middle finger to your best economic customer is going to have consequences. But i’m sure none of you will be whining , ( especially when you lose the house in the mid terms ). Desantis could have been so much greater. 2 months in , already obvious.
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