In November, after Donald Trump won the election for President of the United States, New York Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger, in an interview with Politico, suggested that her state succeed and become a “southern province” of our neighbor to the north.
Of course, Krueger quickly stated that her idea of planting the Maple Leaf flag in the Empire State and becoming part of Canada was ’a joke, of course.’
“I thought I would suggest to Canada that instead of us all trying to illegally cross the border at night without them noticing, which is pretty hard because there’s a lot of us, that they should instead agree to let us be the southeast province, a new province of Canada, and I offered, even though I hadn’t gotten agreement from other states yet, that I thought New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, would combine and be a great new province as the southeast province of Canada,” she said.
The list of Liberal Democrats who threatened to leave the U.S. if Trump won a second presidential term is lengthy. Few followed up with their threats.
Give Krueger credit for thinking outside the box.
Krueger’s desire to join Canada revolves around Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership, which has pushed his country to the extreme left politically.
How is that working out for Canada — not very good.
Between 1980 and 2020, housing prices in Canada rose by 746 percent, forcing Canadians to spend more of their income on housing than in almost any other place in the world. Then, housing prices rose another 50 percent during the pandemic.
One comment on the Internet said, “When my husband and I bought our first house in a Vancouver suburb in 1992, it cost 3.5 times our income. My daughter and son-in-law will have to pay 15 times their income for an equivalent home.”
Backup 13 years: In 2012, Canadians were better off than the United States on a GDP per capita basis. Today, Americans are 60 percent wealthier than Canadians.
Liberal Party leader Trudeau has been the Canadian PM since 2015. However, as of the end of December, his popularity has sunk to a new low. According to the Angus Reid Institute poll, only 16 percent of respondents currently support Trudeau.
A release on Dec. 30 from the institute said, “It is also quite possibly the lowest vote intention the Liberals have ever received in the modern era.”
This has led to Trudeau’s resignation.
Nick Freitas, a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates since 2016 and a social media influencer, explains that the problem is deeper than Trudeau. “It’s also the mindset that got him elected,” Freitas said. “Millions of Canadians bought into a utopian vision of governance, believing that ambitious promises of widespread prosperity and social justice could be delivered through government edict without any practical trade-offs.”
In a representative democracy, like Canada, Freitas said, “political leaders are usually a mirror of what the public desires, however unrealistic those desires may be.”
Another problem Canada is grappling with is Trudeau’s open-door immigration policy. Many have attributed this flow of migrants to rising youth unemployment, rising housing prices, and straining Canada’s health care system.
Following the lead in the United States, Canada has a federal debt of close to $1.2 trillion.
Trudeau’s government is also attacking Free Speech in Canada. The Canadian legislation known as Bill C-11, or the Online Streaming Act, enables the government to deem a personal YouTube channel insufficiently diverse or to find a rapper’s music guilty of spreading “disinformation.” The legislation allows the government to shut down individuals’ social media accounts for “creating content that’s rejected by a government-controlled algorithm.”
A nurse in British Columbia, Amy Hamm, was attacked by her nurses’ association for helping pay for a billboard endorsing J.K. Rowling’s view on gender transition issues.
“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.” -— Thomas Sowell
