A History Lesson to Expose the Depth of "the Totally Unacceptable Insults and Unprecedented Threats" Made by President Donald Trump to "Our Very Sovereignty."
“…. the totally unacceptable insults and the unprecedented threats to our very sovereignty from US President, Donald Trump.” —Jean Chretien, former Prime Minister of Canada
Jean Chretien is a great Canadian. He stood up to US President George W. Bush’s war machine in 2003. Now he is standing up in 2025 to the bullying of US President Donald Trump on another vital issue, one where the stakes are much larger than most people realize.
In 2003 Jean Chretien wrote one of the best chapters in Canadian history when he refused to authorize the Canadian Armed Forces to join George Bush’s Coalition of the Willing in the disastrous invasion of Iraq.
Jean Chretien stood up to the squadrons of hysterical war-mongers, including the Canadian Parliament’s Opposition Leader, Stephen Harper. Chretien said NO to a classic US psyop based on a very BIG LIE. I saw Chretien’s stance at the time as the crowning culmination and justification for his many years of public service in the Canadian government.
Chretien refused to go along with the concocted narrative that the government of Saddam Hussein was on the verge of getting weapons of mass destruction. Beneath that surface lie was the even bigger foundational lie characterizing the 9/11 attacks as the work of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
The CIA-cultivated mercenaries of Al-Qaeda are in the news again. This time around the supposed culprits of 9/11 have been cast in the role of prominent actors in the US-Israeli-backed proxy forces providing a veil of deception to hide what is really going on in the remaking of Syria. The US and Israeli governments are leading the way in yet another shit show rivalling NATO’s war of mass destruction in Libya. The Global War on Terror is an ongoing scam designed to poison minds against manufactured “Islamic terrorists” in order to enable the continuation of US wars for Israel.
Now Jean Chretien has intervened to call out the verbal excesses of Donald Trump as he wanders deeper and deeper into a rhetorical swamp of his own creation. Says Chretien,
As one old guy to another…. give your head a shake.. What could make you think that Canadians would ever give up the best country in the world…. to join the United States?
The poorly schooled Donald Trump probably sees Canada as just a pale version of the United States. In making that assumption, he is far from alone. Many Canadians probably think the same thing. Now after the massive institutional destruction done by the COVID debacle, Canadians cannot blithely refer to “free health care” as the all-purpose justification for Canada’s existence.
After a decade of the Justin Trudeau government, many of the main features of the Canadian Dream lie in tatters. But that need not be the end of the story.
In fact Canada is in internal disarray as the Donald Trump comes to office with his big talk about altering the economic and geopolitical status of northern North America, the site of the second biggest country in the world. As part of his inauguration ceremony on his first day as US President, Trump announced his intention to go ahead, probably on Feb. 1, with imposing 25% tariffs on all Canadian exports. He alleged Canada is “a very bad abuser” failing to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and fentanyl into the USA.
This development should come as no surprise. It comes on top of Trump referring to Canada as the 51st state and our worse-than-lame-duck PM as the “Governor” of the imaginary polity. There is nothing clever, knowledgable or apt in this drab presidential put down of Canada.
Trump’s intervention is coming at a time when Canada is without any effective and legitimate national government whatsoever. Trudeau’s Liberal Party lacks the backing of the Canadian people as well the majority of MPs in Parliament.
Trudeau continues to pathetically grasp onto power with the claim that he “intends” to resign once he has arranged the outcome of the forthcoming leadership contest within the moribund Liberal Party. Trudeau’s preferred successor, it seems, is Great Reset operative, Mark Carney.
This convergence of dire circumstances has the hallmarks of a grave crisis in the making. The aggressiveness of the Trump government serves as reminder that the US government has a long history of wanting to annex Canada beginning with the War of 1812.
In the forefront the crisis is being fomented by Trump’s efforts to ridicule Canada as some sort of welfare bum ripping off the noble United States. As I see it, however, the biggest danger is that the Canada-US turmoil will bring to the surface severe manifestations of the profound existential divisions within the troubled Canadian polity. These divisions have been long in the making and have been addressed seriously in a remedial way. Now the divisions within are becoming a sensationalized spectacle on the world stage.
Any consensus we might once have had about what our country should stand for, has broken down. The result is increasing animosity among Canadians. Those of us who are not apathetic or homeless and addicted on the streets… those of us who are paying attention are at odds on many subjects. We are especially confused right now when it comes to the issue of where to point the unharnessed potential of this vast and resource-rich county.
Increasingly many aspects on the clash of visions revolve around competing strategies about how to treat, manage and export Alberta’s vast oil and gas resources. This controversy is unfolding as hundreds of millions of people in the world are awakening to the climate change scam transacted at the highest level by the predator class of bankers epitomized by the vile career of Mark Carney.
The perfect storm of coinciding difficulties comes at a time when the whole world is being turned upside down by the Everything Crisis. The Everything Crisis includes the global menace of many-faceted warfare, financial collapse especially in the West, the loss of credibility by all our major institutions, and the conspicuous failure of law enforcement agencies to hold accountable those culprits responsible for the most diabolical forms of international crime, including the unleashing of bioweapons and genocidal atrocities
Even members of our judiciary, who used to provide some check on the authoritarian tendencies of government and its corporate extensions, have turned against the mission of their professional calling. For the most part they have become apologists and weaponized agents whose priorities seem to be to protect some of the most predatory incursions menacing our lives, our health and our economic viability.
The menacing alignments of catastrophic circumstances will inevitably result in major changes to many facets of our world including significant alterations to our institutions and geopolitical relations. The isolation of the Western Hemisphere provided by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans no longer apply as they did in the era of the two world wars. There is no reason to anticipate that North America will be shielded from the intensification and spread of the multiple global eruptions underway.
This essay will look at the unfolding crisis primarily in North America from a Canadian perspective. From what I have seen of the coverage so far, there is a dearth of authoritative reporting giving substantial background and context to the current disruption of the geopolitical status quo which may very well be in its early stages.
As I am coming to understand it, this challenge to Canada as we have known it is a make-or-break test for our country and probably for the United States as well. If North America comes unglued, which some have long been predicting, there is nothing to say that the geopolitical map can’t be reassembled into configurations that would serve us better than what we have today.
For some of the problems that need to be solved, the devil will be in the details. At this juncture in our history, however, we also need some big picture analysis. This analysis should help implement the principle that we need to know where we came from in order to best assess where we should be headed.
It is pretty much a given that some big and powerful agencies will do their best to do the opposite; to point us in the wrong direction towards objectives to further empower the powerful and further enrich the rich at the expense of everyone else.
Canada Is Much Older Than the United States
Canada is NOT now a part of the United States because there was a portion of North America’s population who opted not to become part of the revolutionary republic.
Many United Empire Loyalists of North America left the newly-created United States. They migrated to the remaining Crown lands north of the new border with the United States. This new border came into formal existence in the maps of world the with the Treaty of Paris in 1783. In 1818 the border was extended across much of western half of North America in the famous 49th parallel.
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Dr. Anthony Hall is currently Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada. He has been a teacher in the Canadian university system since 1982. Dr. Hall, has recently finished a big two-volume publishing project at McGill-Queen’s University Press entitled “The Bowl with One Spoon”.
He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
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