O Canada!
This is an unauthorized, unsolicited opinion,
meant to reply to some of the angst coming from Canada about Donald Trump.
Hello Cousins. (We are cousins - of sorts).
I have an affection for Canada and have visited Vancouver.
Just as President Trump loves regular Americans more than he likes the elitists in US government,
Donald Trump loves regular Canadians.
My dad was a sailor in WW2 in the South Pacific on the USS Chilton, a troop ship.
He enlisted after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and transported US Marines and Chinese troops
to battle sites such as Okinawa.
World War 2 happened because three small groups of evil men - joined forces (The Axis Powers)
and tried to rule the world. They conscripted their citizens to do their dirty work,
brainwashing their regular citizens to hate those nations they wanted to conquer.
UK-related military, (a part of The Allies) were brave combatants on every inch of soil
they fought for in WW2.
But I see political brainwashing on the rise again...in UK countries now. Australia and other
UK affiliates have surrendered their guns to their government; London police are arresting citizens who make unhappy social posts about immigrants raping their females and battering their elderly.
And back when Democrats were in the US Oval Office, there was a strong parallel between US leadership and Canadian leadership. Both nations' leaders were listening to dark, hidden voices that the rest of us aren't privy to hear, leading our countries down a bad road - into eventual ruin.
Although I have never spoken with Donald Trump, I believe he cares for all people as best as he can, while ultimately being loyal to the nation of his birth and to the people who elected him.
Donald Trump believes in sustainable nationalism - that each country should be able to provide for its own needs, and when excess exists, to sell those products abroad - for fair prices to help its own workers and to help other nations. Tariffs are a tool to protect a nation's own workers.
How can a nation with a trade deficit truly feel free and independent?
Independence is then an illusion.
> Each country's citizens should be encouraged to buy the products
that puts their own neighbors to work and puts food on their neighbors' tables.
> We should favor neighbor-made products over foreign-made products, because...
if we don't care if our neighbor has a job, then soon - our own adult children may not be able
to feed our grandchildren, for lack of work.
> The few dollars we saved on foreign-made products will be then taken by the government,
and converted to unemployment benefits, food stamps and rent assistance for our neighbors
that can't find work - and we will spend even more money - buying foreign-made school clothes
for our grandkids that your unemployed adult children can't afford to buy.
> What goes around comes around.
I have read that some countries sell products made by prison inmates. And if sales go up -
and they need more workers - I guess that means more people are arrested and sent to prison,
to work in prison factories. This is not at all 'fair trade'.
And there are countries that use child labor; these children are victims of human trafficking.
Labor cartels recruit local adults to funnel their children into work camps.
Forced child labor is a disgrace. Canadian parents shouldn't have to compete
with child-trafficking cartels to feed their Canadian children.
Canada should be able to feed itself.
Canada should build its own chainsaws and fishing boats and float planes.
Canada should produce its own clothes and recreational gear -
and yes - Canada should grow and process its own maple syrup.
Both the US and Canada should understand the other nation's loyalty to its own maple syrup.
Let Canada indeed be "The land of hope for all who toil"
This is contrary to the way globalists think.
Canada, globalists don't care about you, your Canadian neighbors or your Canadian grandchildren.
Their intentions and devices revolve around absorbing the wealth of the world
and the power that wealth brings.
Globalism is managed and controlled by a hidden oligarchy.
Incompetent national leaders are evidence that hidden oligarchs exist,
and they are local hand puppets to these hidden oligarchs.
Sustainable Nationalism - fights Global Oligarchy.
But yes, it will cost more to buy things made by your neighbors
instead of things made by a prisoner or a child in a third-world country.
But it will not increase your total 'life-cost'
which includes helping your unemployed neighbors and supporting your adult children.
Don't be a goal-suck. Help your neighbors make a living too.
Buy Canadian, eh?
*****
Each issue between our two countries - has several layers,
and each layer has its own perspectives,
its own problems,
and its own possibilities.
Donald Trump can see deeper and wider than most world leaders,
partly because he isn't in it for personal gain, like so many US and Canadian politicians.
Selfish motives dirties a man's perspective. Trump doesn't even collect the salary due him.
How many American or Canadian politicians can that say that?
Donald Trump is a Canadian asset, in that he cares about Canada's long-term well-being.
In the end, he will prove himself to be an asset to Canadians who want to feed their own
families by the work of their own hands.
Eric J. Rose
April 2025
more below...
Comparing: US, Canada, Haitipopulation, v. national debt
A modest chart, with figures gathered from the internet,
but not all from the same year.
(this is one negative of being internet-dependent for numbers in research)
