Posted on 02/09/2022 8:53:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadians say they are concerned political strife in the United States will undermine security and economic growth at home, according to a new poll, as an anti-vaccine mandate protest praised by former U.S. President Donald Trump gripped the capital and affected the border.
The anxiety captured in the Angus Reid Institute survey provides a backdrop to protests across the country, at the international border, and especially in Ottawa.
The Ottawa protest, now in its 13th day, has been marred by the appearance of hateful symbols, like the Confederate flag, associated with the aggressive populism embraced by Trump supporters and some protesters say their goal is not only to roll back vaccine mandates, but also to overthrow the government.
In the poll, 78% of Canadians said they were worried America's democratic discord will affect their country's economy and security. The survey of 1,620 Canadians was conducted between Jan. 27 and Jan. 31, the days in which the Ottawa protest began.
The Jan. 6 anniversary of the storming of Capitol Hill in Washington last year led to a series of articles in Canadian newspapers that sounded an alarm about the resiliency of American democracy in coming years, and in particular after the 2024 election.
Trump last weekend spoke out in support of the truckers and called Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a "far-left lunatic".
According to Angus Reid poll, 68% of Canadians believe U.S. democracy cannot survive another Trump presidency, and 47% said the United States is on its way to becoming an authoritarian state.
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It’s all Trump’s fault. /s
Right on cue, the usurper n chief is a senile idiot, the shadow government behind him is literally forcing mandates, edicts and poverty upon the nation but somehow Trump threatens the democracy.
These people really are heading to some dark hot places when their reckoning comes.
Typical Leftist garbage.
They should seriously consder
surrendering and quitting their fear smear
January 6, much worse than Vietnam/s
There’s only one Confederate flag that briefly appeared to be photographed by Justin Trudeau’s photographer. Only the most gullible reporters don’t know it’s literally a false flag.
So much BS from the media.
Oh, no. It is far worse than Vietnam.
It is worse than the Holocaust.
Conservatives are worse than Hitler and Judas Iscariot! The river of history is about to swamp the Liberals in a sea of violence if they fail to step down.
It’s just twitter I know, but a ton of Trump blasting is from there. I don’t get it really.
The Confederate battle flag is not a “hateful” symbol any more than the maple leaf flag or the Stars and Stripes are.
“the prerequisite to victory is ‘to make proper preparations in the enemy’s camp so that the result is decided beforehand.’ Thus the former Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army” continued “in a remarkable paraphrase of Sun Tzu: ‘the victorious army attacks a demoralized and defeated enemy.’”
“the skillful strategist should be able to subdue the enemy’s army without engaging it, to take his cities without laying siege to them, and to overthrow his State without bloodying swords.”
“In Sun Tzu’s view, the army was the instrument which delivered the coup de grâce to an enemy previously made vulnerable. Prior to hostilities, secret agents separated the enemy’s allies from him and conducted a variety of clandestine activities against him. Among their missions were to spread false rumors and misleading information, to corrupt and subvert officials, to create and exacerbate internal discord, and to nurture Fifth Columns. Meanwhile spies at all levels ascertained the enemy at all levels. On their reports, ‘victorious’ plans were based.”
“He did not conceive war in terms of slaughter and destruction; to take all intact, or as nearly intact as possible, was the proper objective of strategy.”
As you know, authoritarians are famous for deregulation, lower taxes, smaller government, applying the law equally, and being undermined at every step by an entrenched and unelected deep state.
Now unconstitutional mandates, bigger government, expanded regulations on every aspect of business and life, more feds spying on Americans, laws for thee but not for me, unchecked lawlessness by the deep state....why that is the very definition of Freedom. /s
Either the polls are crap or Canadians are idiots.
Milksops on the left are sitting around frightened by January 6, it’s so pathetic.
At least they acknowledge that the protest is anti-mandate and not anti-vaccine. But also note the tone: if President Trump is for it, then Reuters is automatically against it.
They got that right as well.
I guess Reuters doesn't see the irony. They seem concerned that Canadians see the United States becoming an authoritarian state, but then turn right around and support Trudeau in his effort for an authoritarian state, not to mention the Biden administration pushing for a more authoritarian state.
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