There’s a darkness that penetrates everything in Canada. It’s always been here, but we can no longer hide it behind phony politeness and strained patriotism.
Justin Trudeau is the embodiment of it; a living, breathing chasm to nothing; a vessel for platitudes that live as a form of social elevator music; fluff that sounds nice but is completely devoid of meaning upon closer examination.
The Great White North has struggled to define itself in the post-Pierre Trudeau period. When challenged to demonstrate characteristics that would represent an identity, the most common response is simply that we are “not American.”
But what does that mean? We are certainly American in the sense that we belong to a continent bearing the name. Do we consider ourselves loyal subjects of the British Empire? Canada is a sovereign nation, however, we are a member of the Commonwealth and we govern under the exceptionally confusing British parliamentary system. We’re surrounded by constant reminders that we are still technically ruled by the Crown in subtle messages appearing everywhere from our cash to our courts to the Western European brand of apathetic mediocrity produced by our state-funded media.
Yet no self-respecting modern Canadian pays any attention to what happens within the British Monarchy. King Charles could be shot out of a cannon over Palestine and the news would be a cursory topic of conversation; something mentioned between sips of coffee while scrolling through TikTok videos in the break room. We, as Canadian citizens, have no allegiance to the Union Jack, and many would revolt if expected to serve the royal throne of the United Kingdom in any real capacity.
Our “not American” identity is rooted in a deep seated insecurity about being the lesser of the Northern Americas. Mexico has the luxury of owning a distinct national character- though it may not own much else in a material sense. Canada is the United States’ scrawny little brother; the beneficiary of whatever cultural hand-me-downs it deems us worthy of inheriting; the tag-along struggling to find itself while secretly wishing it had the courage to be the independent older sibling. Canadians often react to this undeniable reality with a smug arrogance; a defense mechanism developed to avoid admitting the obvious. The United States is bigger and better, but we're more tolerant and compassionate. They have their God, guts and guns, we’re the civilized socialists who live in an intellectual fantasy world where healthcare is free and nationwide wealth redistribution makes sense because we're Canadian and that's the only explanation given when the subject comes up since it's impossible to justify otherwise.
Except our healthcare isn't free. We pay handsomely for our decaying pharma machine. And equalization payments from the western powerhouse provinces to the eastern media and political centers that generate nothing of intrinsic value has been a sore spot in this country since Pierre Trudeau first stuck his Marxist hand in Alberta's cookie jar.
We don't talk about those controversies though. It’s not nice to point out the charity routinely funneled into Quebec and Ontario from the blue collar nobodies they look down their noses at. We must achieve net zero- that is until Ottawa and Montreal need more of the billions BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan painstakingly pump out of the ground in freezing temperatures. Oil, gas and coal are the devil, but our executive and political classes are more than happy to dance with him when the coffers run dry.
We’re a nation erected around befuddling contradictions and hypocrisies. During the last ten years the Trudeau Liberals massively widened the scope of their government, adding layers of complexity to the winding labyrinth of bureaucracy. Trudeau himself made good on his promise to transform Canada into a post-national state through heavy injections of transgenderism and anti-racist racism, tidal waves of immigration, and a drug decriminalization effort that fed a raging fentanyl epidemic.
Beneath the chaos China was tightening its grip around the Trudeau Liberals. American intelligence agencies caught on quickly. They peeked through the weeds of Trudeau’s overwhelming criminality to discover what was slithering around at the bottom of the Canadian swamp: a discreet partnership between a cabinet packed with inane idealogues and a foreign communist regime racing toward world domination.
Canada was designated as a national security threat under the Biden Democrats. They knew what the Canadian public didn’t: that their elected officials were no longer working on their behalf and were now agents for wealthy United Front Work Department donors connected to the CCP and criminal cartels. The Biden administration kept their suspicions quiet since they too were on the hook with China-led globalist organizations like the World Economic Forum, World Health Organization and a litany of others, but they began to distance themselves as a means of self-preservation. They were comfortable flirting with the dragon to appease their donors, however, Canada was sleeping with it. The United States formed a new five eyes defense alliance (AUKUS) with New Zealand and Canada- the two countries most notably infiltrated by Chinese interests- deliberately left out.
When President Trump returned to the White House, he arrived with a mandate to repair the devastation caused by four years of the Biden wood chipper tearing through the American cultural fabric and shredding their withering economy. His America First approach appears to be a turn away from hegemonic power- most strikingly observable in his massive cuts to USAID- and a focus inward on a vast array of domestic diseases. With millions of illegal immigrants settling in the United States under Biden, an out of control fentanyl crisis and violent crime on the rise, mass deportations and strengthened borders were the obvious immediate remedies to stop the bleeding.
In Canada millions of international students flooded the country with Trudeau’s blessing. “Immigration consultants”, both in Canada and abroad, assisted in falsifying transcripts and other documents to guarantee passage. In March and April 2024 a reported fifty thousand students disappeared from the government’s radar. Between 2021 and 2024 there were approximately fifteen hundred encounters with individuals on the US terrorist watchlist traveling through the northern border- and that’s just the confirmed number. We don’t know how many slipped through the miles wide gaps between Canada and the United States.
Furthermore, the Port of Vancouver is widely known as a main point of entry for fentanyl into North America via Hong Kong and Mainland China based shipping companies. Unsurprisingly, British Columbia (the province in which Vancouver is located) now lays claim to the largest fentanyl superlab ever discovered on the American side of the Pacific Ocean. Many of the alleged conspirators are connected to organizations that had made large donations to the Trudeau Foundation and the Liberal Party- which also sheds light on some potential motivations behind BC’s perplexing drug decriminalization policy.
So when President Trump issued his ultimatum to Prime Minister Trudeau- tighten up your national security or suffer 25% tariffs on all exports- Canadians howled in agony at the sudden betrayal by our belligerent bestie. Sure, we were pumping a variety of poisons into their backyard, but best friends don’t acknowledge each other’s flaws and demand they do better- not in Canada, anyway. In Arctic Mexico we pretend they aren’t there until they grow out of our control and then we just live with them like giant malignant facial tumors- and when they become terminal we wheel our best friend into the hospital where they’re euthanized under our medical assistance in dying program. That’s tolerance, that’s compassion, that’s the Canadian way.
But it isn’t the American way- especially as it pertains to Donald Trump: the hyper-alpha, free market magnate, cheeseburger billionaire. If he intends to truly put America first, then he must also wrangle in his wildly volatile southern neighbor and bring the hammer down on his deceptively docile northern sidekick. There’s no more room for casually overlooking the detrimental behaviors of corrupt bedfellows in favor of foreign conflicts and empire expansion. The Trump administration is targeting the inverse: a drastic reduction of American waste in globalist projects and a return to the nationalism that generated post-World War II era prosperity.
This momentous course correction puts Justin Trudeau and his post-nationalist Liberal Party firmly at odds with the new/old American ideals, and to further destabilize our cross-border relationship, Mark Carney- a key architect of the WEF fueled globalist eco-nightmare- is poised to replace Trudeau as Liberal leader and become Canada's unelected Prime Minister.
Canadians, of course, lack the mental vigor to comprehend their own deficiencies, so we'll fall back into the fetal position and soil ourselves until China saves us in exchange for what's left of our autonomy or Trump puts us out of our misery. We'll throw a temper tantrum and threaten to join the EU or even BRICS (BRICCS?), but we'll never follow through because the United States would hit us with devastating sanctions before the first Chinese electric death trap rolled onto the docks in Vancouver.
Meanwhile the world will continue on without us. Trump will capitalize on our severely impaired oil and gas industries in BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan- just as he recently did in his deal with Japan (a country that came to Canada first but was denied by Trudeau), Canadians will elect Mark Carney as our next semi-legitimate Prime Minister in a strange act of cringey self-owning revenge against Trump, and we'll plunge into the eco-fascist cloaked in green communism suicidal side of the left- because if there's one thing we're are good at, it's cutting off our nose to spite our face. We'll happily bankrupt our nation and thrust ourselves into a third world dictatorship if it means we're “buying Canadian.”
Always hit the target. Thank you once again.
Excellent writing Jason. Well done.