I regard Trump's jabs about us being the 51st state as just that - unserious jabs which have no realistic possibility of happening and which, frankly, he and the American right probably don't
actually want to happen. Annexing Ontario, Quebec, the Maritimes and BC's Lower Mainland will be tantamount to adding multiple Californias to the Union (not just these three as-is, but also assuming the possibility that the existing provinces will be divided into smaller states for integration). Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba (the latter of which is also pretty left-wing for a prairie province) would be unviable additions, and also look pretty bad on a map, without the coasts. The only meaningful strategic reason to do it would be to deny Canada's resources & waterways to Red China.
However, the fact that it's been said at all and the Canadian ruling elite's response really helps underscore the damage Trudeau has managed to inflict upon this country in the last 10 years. You now have the same politicians who were aggressively pooh-poohing the concept of a Canadian nation for the past decade, indeed Trudeau himself infamously called Canada a 'post-national' country (ie. a rootless economic zone with no meaningful history or culture of its own), doing a rapid volte-face and suddenly making patriotic appeals they would've themselves derided as chauvinistic, kitschy and problematic just a few weeks ago. Globalist bottom feeders like journo
Andrew Coyne (who incidentally is also a distant relative of Trudeau's, his cousin was a mistress of Trudeau Sr. and they had a kid together) who for years had been shitting on Canadian nationalism and the concept of Canada as an actual nation with the 'best' of them, are now passionately Xitting for Canadians to stand up for their country against the Orange Man - even though this shameless motherfucker can't even be bothered to add the Maple Leaf to all those other foreign flags he's put in his username, to make the most token effort imaginable to show that he cares even a fraction as much for this country as the people he's hoping will answer his call to fight and die for it.
I do think this is forcing a re-examination of Canadian nationalism, albeit a day late and a dollar short so to speak. What actually
is Canada? What lessons and figures from our history can we draw upon for strength and to differentiate ourselves from America, with whom it cannot be denied that we have much in common with culturally (perhaps so much that without our past legends & heroes, there would actually be no reason to keep going as a separate country)? Loyalty to the Crown, tarnished though it may be nowadays. The frontier spirit animating Canadians of the past, from the
coureur des bois to the Anglo-Slavic ancestral settlers in the Prairies, as much as any American pioneer. Politicians like Sir John A. MacDonald who, despite their many personal vices, actually got shit done. Canadian soldiers who gained a reputation for being absolutely badass (even verging on the psychotic) on the battlefields of Europe in both World Wars. Hell, I'm not even an 'old stock' Anglo-Canadian myself and I can find that stuff inspiring.
Oh wait, all of that has been systematically demonized as problematic, colonialist, white-supremacist, imperialistic,
evil for many years now. Their statues have been removed and streets named after them renamed, more often than not in favor of concepts that have nothing to do with or even actively oppose Canada's legacy (like how Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto was almost renamed 'Sankofa Square', after some nonsense concept derived from a Ghanan tribe that engaged in slavery long after the British outlawed it, not even two full years ago).
Okay, so if we disregard the entirety of Canadian history prior to c. 1980 as problematic Original Sins to be ashamed of and buried beneath a deluge of (white) Canadian tears & endless reparations to the oppressors' victims, what are we left with for use as rallying symbols? Hockey, Tim Hortons and a 'politeness' which increasingly seems to just be a smug unfounded sense of superiority over the Americans mixed in with infuriating passive-aggressive behavior & self-righteousness? Yeah, that's some fantastic glue to hold a 'post-national' nation together alright. Really effectively papers over facts like...
- Damn near nobody outside of the richest elite families can afford to buy a house;
- The economy's in the shitter and will probably get even worse since Parliament's been prorogued and nobody is at the wheel while Trump is threatening 25% tariffs;
- Crimes are going unpunished and even un-investigated as long as the perpetrators aren't white, meanwhile bills have been tabled/passed to criminalize attacking them or denying stuff like the residential school genocide hoax as hate crimes;
- Chinese spying is a serious fucking problem in the government;
- Corruption in general is a serious fucking problem with this government, to a far worse and more persistent degree than just about any past Canadian government including even Jean Chrétien's;
- The alphabet lobby can & will sue you for failing to fly their flag (even if your town literally doesn't have a flagpole) and worship them sufficiently and then the state can take the money out of your bank account to pay them with;
- Schools in general are tilting really hard into turning the next generations into anti-Canadian rainbow-painted woke zombies, the only thing that can even slow them down is the bizarre alliance of Christian conservatives and the same Muslims imported by the people woke teachers voted for;
- MAID has already entered the top 5 leading causes of death in this country; and
- 23% of the population was born outside Canada and immigration is projected to provide 100% of our population growth by 2032. We had a population of 35 million in 2015 when Trudeau was first elected, now it's at 41 million and year after the year, 90%+ of that population 'growth' has consistently been driven by immigrants, directly contributing to the housing crisis & un- and underemployment crises & our general economic malaise. Indians are the most infamous for it, but even Quebec is getting flooded with Haitians & Africans brought in simply because they're Francophones.
And so on, so forth. Gee, the tough talk of our politicians and media aside, why aren't people willing to die for this country? I can't possibly fathom a logical answer to that question!
The damage Trudeau has done in 10 years will take at least 100 to fix, if it even can be fixed at all. Poilievre
sounds OK but has been very skittish & vague at best about tackling our core problems, like rampant mass migration into Canada and the grocery/dairy/telecom corporate cartels, and I doubt he could significantly arrest much less reverse this country's decline even if he earnestly tried and got elected 3 times for it. But ah well, at least Canada can serve as a wonderful object lesson as to the importance of nationalism - and how destroying your own country's sense of it, demoralizing your own citizenry, etc. for some asspats at Davos is in fact a terrible idea, and one-hundred-fold so when said former sense of nationalism was the main thing separating your country from its bigger southern neighbor with whom it shares the same language, similar customs and much history.
If one believes (as Coyne and Trudeau do) that Canada isn't a real country but rather just a colonial-imperial project built on stolen land and the bones of genocided First Nations, whose future is but to serve as a cultureless economic zone populated by rootless interchangeable cogs (and it deserves that, as its 'old stock' population deserves only endless torment and humiliation, for their past sins), then what actual counter-argument could you possibly offer up when the Orange Imperator offers your people a place in his glorious realm where
his people set off fireworks, wave massive flags and shoot at hurricanes for their country? Absolutely fucking nothing, that's what. As a Canadian, to me the main benefit of a possible annexation of Canada into the US within my lifetime will be that it represents a hard kick (with steel-toed boots on) to the barely-existent balls of the soulless globalist-technocrat types who imagined their deranged social experiments represented the future. Realistically Trudeau will just get a cozy job at the UN now that he's done ruining Canada anyway, might as well make sure he seethes about it for the rest of his life.
