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Americans should understand that these tariffs are increasingly being viewed in Canada, by basically everyone, including the growing Canadian nationalist movement, as a form of arbitrary economic warfare.
One thing they have accomplished is exposing the sheer number of disloyal, rootless and desperate people who have occupied the Canadian right for years. This is especially true of the populists who advocate for breaking up the country, turning individual provinces into American states, or annexing Canada outright.
These people would trade away their sovereignty for ten years of cheaper gas and groceries at Costco. They would take out a reverse mortgage to finance a third property, only to discover that their new country is beginning to resemble the old one while collapsing under the weight of its own immense social and economic problems.
The tariffs have also unified Canadians and rallied many of them around the cause of sovereignty. What sovereignty means varies widely among Canadians.
Canadian nationalists hate the left. For decades, the left has worn the skin of nationalism while hollowing the country out and reducing it to a postnational economic zone on stolen land called Turtle Island. That project made Canada weaker and more vulnerable to American influence and pressure.
At the same time, we have no intention of ignoring how the United States government treated Canada throughout the twentieth century. Beneath the political order built under Lester Pearson, whose government was supported by the Kennedy administration, and later transformed by Pierre Trudeau, there remains the solid foundation of a real people and a real nation. Those people still exist.
Canadian nationalists will not tolerate being pushed into a materially worse arrangement where we inherit American problems. We do not want American demographics, American crime, American foreign policy or American Zionism imported into Canada.
When I last visited British Columbia during COVID, smoke from California wildfires had blanketed the province. Canadians were forced to breathe dangerously polluted air from fires that many believed had been badly managed. The whole place looked apocalyptic.
We also have not forgotten the East Palestine train crash, which released hazardous chemicals and produced airborne pollution that reached parts of Ontario and Quebec. Cross border environmental consequences are real, and Canada is often left dealing with the fallout from failures originating in the United States.
Those failures did not lead Canada to slap random tariffs on the United States while Americans were already struggling through a technical recession and stagflation.
We are also not going to forget how often the American right has thrown Canada under the bus. That includes the hundreds of prominent posters, activists and influencers on this app and cross border intellectuals who have circulated through nationalist spaces over the last quarter century. We know exactly who they are and how they operate.
When serious and intelligent Canadian nationalists finally take control of the country, we will resist the United States government, its influence and every attempt to interfere with Canadian sovereignty to the maximum extent possible.
Geoff Russ 🍁@GeoffRuss3
The Canadian 'tariff me harder Donny' crowd is about to have a wild Friday night over this silliness.
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