Posted on 04/09/2025 5:21:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Kaile Shilling, a writer and former theology student, says she moved from Los Angeles to Canada during the first Trump administration to escape America’s toxic politics. She never saw herself as the kind of person to hang a giant flag on the front of her house.
But after Donald Trump was reelected last fall and started threatening to turn America’s famously polite and peaceful northern neighbor into the “51st state,” Shilling’s dual-citizenship husband unfurled an enormous red and white maple leaf banner on their home in Vancouver for all the world to see.
“When he did it, I went, ‘F— YEAH!‘” said Shilling, tossing her head back and laughing, clearly shocked by her own sudden outburst of passion and profanity.
She’s not the only one feeling that way.
Instead of cowing Canadians, Trump’s threats to annex their country have unleashed a wave of national fervor unmatched in living memory. Canadians are refusing to buy American products, canceling travel plans south of the border, even booing the U.S. anthem before professional hockey games.
And instead of feeling threatened by the backlash against their native land, many American ex-pats living in Canada are enthusiastically siding with their neighbors.
Nanci Burns, a retired social worker who was born in the U.S. and spent years with family in California before moving to Ottawa, said she’s stunned by the transformation in public sentiment. “I’ve never seen this level of patriotism. Everybody is pro-Canada and so afraid of losing their country,” Burns said. “It’s a universal voice, no matter where you go.”
Burns recalled watching the recent Four Nations Face-Off hockey tournament, where the Canadian and American teams went head to head. After fans in Montreal booed the U.S. anthem before the first game, three fights broke out on the ice in the first nine seconds.
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So, no change from before Trunp.
Based on the behavior of Canadians, it’s looking more and more like the name of their country will soon become Gay North Dakota.
Canadians exhibiting symptoms of inferiority complex.
Nanci Burns, a retired social worker who was born in the U.S. and spent years with family in California before moving to Ottawa, said she’s stunned by the transformation in public sentiment. “I’ve never seen this level of patriotism.
That's true of conservative Canadians as much as liberals. Conservative Canadians like America, but they love being Canadian.
Trump's insult to Canadians -- his "51st state" remark -- was bound to offend Canadians across the political spectrum.
I dont likes them Kebeckers.
Canada is projected to spend 1.37% of their GDP on defense this year while we push European countries to spend 5%. So Canada depends on their geographic location and the US for their national defense but gets all huffy when called out for it while also using protectionist tariffs to take further advantage of the American people.
“transform Canadians into flag-waving, U.S.-booing patriots”
Huh? Is that not an oxymoron?
Oh, so they AREN’T for open borders and all that? Fickle people.
Of course, Canadians will cross the border and go to Costco in Bellingham, Washington for milk.
Says the person whose country made their aid-programs conditional upon acceptance of homosexuality
If you trace all those USAID handouts, the majority went from one perv to another
Sounds like this writer has no clue about how Canadians and Europeans *really* feel about Americans (Loud mouthed,abusive, entitled, unsophisticated).
That wasn’t real Americans who did that. It was the cabal who infiltrated us.
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