How do you think our nation would have responded, collectively, to that unrealistic threat?
Would we have a shred of patience for anyone telling us not to worry about it?
Our many millions ofneighbors to the northare hearing similar threats today from our new president,Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump at the Oval Office of the White House on March 7, 2025.Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
They are not laughing it off.
(U.S. territories, likePuerto Rico, are not allowed electoral votes for the presidency.)
Canada could do a lot more.
(At least Trump White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt practicallyadmittedthe tariffs are about forcing Canadas annexation.)
Its in proposed legislation.
The policy papers have been written.
Trump campaigned on itduringhis successful reelection bid.
The justifications they cite, of course, are the drug cartels and fentanyl.
Not a troll, or a joke, or mere bluster a scandal.
Canadians are experiencing the same politics of extortion and harassment that Trump has unleashed on Ukraine.
If anything, its the American public that should be taking Trumps depravity more seriously.
We allowed this to happen.
