Canada weighs in its opinion on becoming the 51st State …

This from “The Maple” …

We (the Canadians) are dealing with a gangster state.

This week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that after chatting with United States President Donald Trump, Canada will be spared from crippling 25 per cent tariffs. For now.

In return, Trudeau re-committed to spending $1.3 billion on a previously crafted “border plan,” and announced the creation of a new “Fentanyl Czar” and “Canada-U.S. Joint Strike Force.”

By now, many of us are familiar with the statistics showing the relatively tiny quantities of fentanyl that enter the U.S. from Canada.

This isn’t about fentanyl — or migration.

But entertaining Trump’s ever-changing demands, even with symbolic measures, sets a dangerous precedent.

When the 30-day reprieve expires, don’t be surprised if Trump slaps down a new set of ridiculous demands, followed by another delay if Canada obeys. And so on, with the threat of tariffs — and annexation — constantly repeated.

As Sam Gindin recently warned in an interview with The Maple, “in exchange for a return to the previous tariff status quo, Canada will accept all kinds of policies the American administration has no business dictating to us.”

What it was about in the first place: As Sam Gindin recently warned in an interview with The Maple, “in exchange for a return to the previous tariff status quo, Canada will accept all kinds of policies the American administration has no business dictating to us.”

Trump’s Threats Expose Canada’s Utter Dependency On The U.S.

The immediate task for Canada should be to delink from the United States and the American Empire.

The Maple•Adam D.K. KingWhat is Trump’s larger game? Journalist Ryan Grim, writing for Drop Site, recently examined the possibility that Trump is pivoting the U.S. away from its status as a global hegemon towards being a more “regional power.”

In that context, Grim writes, “Trump’s belligerence toward Greenland and Canada, for example, appears more like an empire stepping back from the world stage and building trenches closer to home.”

The article was written before Trump openly mused about ethnically cleansing and occupying Gaza, where former U.S. president Joe Biden before him supported Israel’s genocide to the hilt (with support from Canada). Whatever Trump’s larger plans may be, if there are any, the U.S. remains a global menace.

As we have explored in another recent article at The Maple, America’s erosion of Canadian sovereignty through free trade agreements has been underway for decades.

The U.S. Has Undermined Canadian Sovereignty For Decades

“The alternative is a world where people come first and not where the interests of large corporations come first.”

The Maple•Emma Paling

Now, the gloves are off, and the best that Canadian leaders have come up with so far are feeble attempts to hit the reset button with characteristic compliance and pleas to our American “friends.”

If we close our eyes for long enough, they seem to imagine, perhaps we’ll wake up in a world where the very agreements that paved the way for Canada’s dangerous dependency on the U.S. are refreshed anew.

In every aspect, the current government seems incapable of thinking about the world in a way that grasps the radically changing realities before us.