So mark Carney, the elite replacement for the hapless Justin Trudeau as the head of the Liberal Party of Canada, has called a snap election.
After the Liberals have run the country into the ground, so much so that the RCMP in a report has noted the potential for unrest due to their mismanagement of the country, the Liberals hope to capitalize on Canadians' dislike of Trump calling for them to be the 51st state.
This cunning plan may very well work.
Until Trump started his quixotic claim for Canada to be the 51st state and threatening massive tariffs over some very dubious claims over fentanyl allegedly coming across the border form Canada (the major source of illegal drugs coming into the US, including Fentanyl is from Mexico), it looked like the Liberals were in for a massive and very well-deserved drubbing.
Indeed the Conservatives were ahead 45% to 11% in December 2024.
Now, not so much: Angus Reid Institute: Liberal lead over CPC increases to eight points, but is Carney’s house of dreams built on concrete or sand?
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This change can all be laid at Trump's feet.
Trump is very much setting himself up for an own goal if he persists in calling for Canada to be the 51st state and continuing the tariff push, as well as some recent announcement about stupid visitor restrictions on Canadians visiting the USA that are really not helping.
The joke about the 51st state was perhaps funny for a very short bit, but no longer.
In fact, Republicans would not want Canada as a 51st state right now - they;d vote en masse, with the exception perhapos of Alberta, for Democrats.
Canada's Liberals and its even farther left wing party, the NDP, can at times make Bernie Sanders and AOC seem downright erudite and centrist. Short of making Canada a US Territory until such time as we teach them to become Americans and get off the socialist bent, bringing them in as a state (or realistically a few states) would be disastrous.
So, instead of Canada getting a conservative and fiscally responsible government that would be much more likely to work with him on important issues, Trump's about to be the reason a massive globalist and elitist, who has likely spent far more time outside of Canada as a member of the global bien pensants than in Canada, into power.
The Liberal party has spent decades downplaying and indeed disdaining Canadian nationalism and spreading a multi-cultural and woke globalist outlook about the country while pushing unfettered immigration and a tax and spend policy that would make Democrats, including Adam Schiff, moist.
But, even when the Librerals are putting their country into the toilet, Canadians tend to get a knee-jerk nationalistic reaction when the US criticizes them (and especially so when the criticism is unfair which is the case currently) and the Liberals are using that to try and win an election that by all rights they should lose badly.
Trump really needs to knock this off, and quickly it's not helping US political or economic goals at all.
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You are much closer and more in tune with Canadians. Maybe Trump's moves will get more Canadians of their complacent butts and take their country back. The last time I was in Vancouver it seemed more Asian than Canadian.
Well Seasoned Fool: Vancouver is heavily Asian as before the Chicom takeover of Hong Kong, those residents there with the means hot-footed it into Canada by means of a special program where they invested in Canada and got immigration benefits. Led to a huge increase in the Vancouver real estate market and a lot of money and successful people coming into the country, so overall a net positive. Certainly changed the demographics of the region in doing so, but the west coast of Canada has always had a fair Asian presence (and anti-Asian racism including the theft of property and internment of Japanese-Canadians during WWII).
Trump's moves unfortunately are driving them into the Liberal's arms whose only campaign right now is they oppose Trump and America, which may be enough for the Libs to get by even as they keep trashing Canada's economy and sovereignty themselves.
So you really think the Canadians are that stupid?
I mean, they voted for Trudeau already, and they likely, when push comes to shove, would have voted for another Liberal. The thought that they will vote for Liberals because Trump wants a 512st state is ludicrous. Blaming Trump for their choice is kinda foolish, doncha think?
Canada is failing because the people chose that fate.
You can't blame Trump for that.
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