Posted on 01/06/2017 3:22:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
An instant industry has developed in Canada about how to adjust to a Trump presidency, as if the nature of the United States has metamorphosed instantly and unrecognizably. Almost all of this concern is unnecessary. Donald Trump has never expressed any grievances against Canada, and his limited experiences here, from skiing in the Laurentians to putting his name on a few buildings for a good fee, (which some local idiots have threatened to take down and have made the subject of demonstrations), have been agreeable. Canada actually runs a modest trade deficit with the United States, and Trump has made it clear that his objections to North American Free Trade are to the large trade deficit with Mexico, not to the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement that preceded it by some years. Approximately nine million Americans are substantially dependent on trade with Canada. This has been a constant of over two centuries — President Jefferson had to declare all New England in a state of insurrection when he embargoed trade with Britain and Canada. The president-elect does not construe the post he has won as a licence to inconvenience and financially imperil his countrymen, or to harass and irritate the country with which, on balance, the United States has been friendlier than any other, these 150 years.
The most vacuous of these confected states of agitation are those based on analysis of the personality of the president-elect, as if he were an extra-terrestrial monster whose conduct was unlikely to have any connection to the rational self-interest of the United States....
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I’ll be crossing the border in a few weeks to attend a classical music concert in Vancouver BC. I expect to be peppered by questions about Trump.
I’m beyond fed up with this bs about Trump. Bunch of pansy-ass liberals wetting their drawers over nothing!
A Canadian friend of mine kept going on and on about how Trump is a racist and how by extension all of America is racist. I helpfully pointed out to him that Canada is less than 1% African origin and less than 1% Hispanic.
88 % Canadians are recognizably white. About 64% of Americans are recognizably non-hispanic white. I asked him why Canada is so racially cleansed.
That was a good read, many thanks!
Canadian media has penis envy. If they really believed the crap that spews out of their bacon and smegma scented mouths they would have militarized the border a long time ago.
Some faulty information in this thread. Canada’s population has a wide array of visible minorities. Almost half the people in B.C. are non-white, but also not black, it’s Chinese and Hindu accounting for most of that. The greater Toronto and Montreal areas also have large non-white populations.
We don’t have a lot of black people here because they never chose to emigrate here. I’m sure if more applied, we would see the results of that. Can you blame anyone for taking a pass on seven or eight months of winter?
Canadians are having enough problems with their President Trudeau, who is acknowledged by an increasing fraction of them as an incompetent fool. They shouldn’t spend any time worrying about our Presidednt Trump.
Which is a fair description as long as it is remembered we do not live in a classless society. The effete liberal lives in a vacuum. They are a distinct group in Canadian society. One characteristic is a smug put down on America whenever they approach the subject. An obsolete description is the bourgeoisie. True it is a Marxist term, but they are the people who generally do not do hands on work. They actually enjoy working themselves up to a hissy fit.
Now down at the local Tim Hortons..... The affairs of the United States seldom if ever get discussed. Unless one marvels at gasoline nearly a dollar a gallon cheaper. Just over the St. Mary's River Bridge. This even with a 75 cent return on the Canadian dollar. Now those sipping coffee at Hortons are yer average Canadians, mostly working people and retirees.
Phew! please excuse this rant/sermon.
Is that the place with the cheese curds?
Some quick Google work brought me to the City of Toronto and the cheese curds. No, I fled Toronto years ago. We are the friendly twin cities of Sault Saint Marie. Ontario and Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. Ironically the American side retains the original spelling. It was the French missionary priest explorers that were here first.
Pretty handy situation to have our American neighbours close by. Both sides of the border seem to absolutely avoid dabbling in each others politics.
My daughter-in-law is from Calgary. She’s a liberal as far as I can tell.
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