The Puck Stops Here
Canuck-nuck. Who’s there? Donald Trump. Donald Trump who? Donald Trump who keeps saying he wants to turn you into the 51st state. Well, it turns out that Canadians didn’t view that threat as a joking matter. Mark Carney won the vote for Prime Minister of Canada “by running against Trump every day for six weeks, delivering an anti-annexation message that allowed him to bring the Liberal Party back from the grave, a sudden, 30-point turnaround without precedent.” Time: How Mark Carney Won Canada’s Pivotal Election.
+ “‘As I’ve been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country,’ Carney told supporters Monday night. ‘These are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so America can own us. That will never … ever happen.'”
+ “Trump was the central figure in Canada’s election Monday—and voters were impressed by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s vision for standing up to him. In a campaign video released on Election Day, Carney laid out his closing message. ‘The crisis in the United States doesn’t stop at their borders,’ he says. ‘But this is Canada and we decide what happens here. Let’s choose to be united and strong. Canada strong.'” How Mark Carney’s anti-Trump brand won him Canada’s election.
+ The obsession with Canada is at least in part driven by concerns about resources that will become more vital as climate change advances. One of the dark ironies in opposite world is that the more thirsty the Trumpers get for Canada, the more they work to deny the reality underpinning that thirst. NYT (Gift Article): All Authors Working on Flagship U.S. Climate Report Are Dismissed.
+ While elections have many drivers, it’s pretty clear that our famously friendly neighbors to the North told Donald Trump to go Canuck himself. But the rhetoric and results also represent a stark reminder of just how much damage Trump has senselessly done to our relationship with our once closest friend and ally—which is part of a broader trend as we reach the 100 day mark of Trump 2.0. Our friends hold us in contempt and our enemies see an opportunity to remake the world order.
