2 weeks Ago By Rick Bell
Yes, poor gullible fearful Canada. You were played. Not by U.
S. President Donald Trump. You were played by power-seeking politicians in this country.
You were played by many in the press in this country. Reality came to call one day after the date set aside for playing jokes on people. Chicken Little was wrong.
The sky isn’t falling. Canada’s end times are not upon us. Tough times yes, especially for Canadian steel, aluminum and this country’s auto industry.
There are dark storm clouds, and with U.S. President Donald Trump, it is best not to forecast the political temperature too far into the future.
Still, it could have been far worse and many in the self-styled smart set figured it would be far worse and some seemed to be almost salivating over the prospect. Let’s face it. From where many thought we’d be this day, there was a win.
Late Wednesday afternoon, when Trump held up the chart with the names of all the countries in his really bad books and we learned of the pain Trump would inflict upon each of them, we waited for Canada’s place in the hit list to be revealed. We had a right to be worried. After all, hadn’t so-called experts told us through the press how there was a chance the Americans would invade Canada and there was also a chance a Canadian resistance movement would fight a guerrilla war against the occupiers from the U.
S. The latest version of that apocalyptic fantasy ran in papers across the country three days ago. Then there was the even scarier hallucination, the one where many Canadians really did lose their mind and rushed to the Liberals for comfort.
The 51st state. Governor Trudeau. Canada would become a state of the U.
S. We would become Americans in short order. There would be no country called Canada.
The boundary with the U.S. would evaporate.
We were told Canada as the 51st state, and Trump calling the former prime minister the governor of Canada, was not the president jerking Justin Trudeau’s chain, a man he clearly despised. People in Washington, D.C.
explained the president ramped up his 51st state shtick after Trudeau spoke with him and appeared weak when confronted with talk of tariffs and their possible effect on Canada. But, day in and day out, we were told Trump wanted to annex Canada. For real.
How often was their talk of Canada’s sovereignty or, in the words of Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Trump’s desire to own Canada?.
