A letter from British Columbia!

Allan: Since Canadians have begun boycotting US products, what are some Canadian products we can boycott in return? "A Proud American!"

 Danielle said: Remember, it is your guy that started this and is using falsified data to justify his actions. 

You should be embarrassed to think about boycotting Canada. 

 Your country is the one trying to destroy the country next to you and absorb it into yours. This is the same as Russia invading Ukraine. 

 If you are shocked over Canada rejecting joining what you have been told since birth is "the best country in earth," it is because you have been lied to about this!!! 

 In quality of life for average people... the USA is not even in the top 10 in most things. 

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 Canada is standing up to an unjustifiable act of aggression by the USA. An act that has cost the USA all of its friends and is making it an international pariah. 

 Open your eyes and you will see that in less than a month you new leader has made the USA one of the bad guys in world affairs. 

At the same level as Russia. 

 Now watch as the prices of almost everything in the USA go up... as well as unemployment. 

You will be lucky if the USA does not break up into several countries in the next few years. 

 Danielle... lives in Metro Vancouver!

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SATURDAY MORNING CONFUSION: Would the United States be a bigger world power by absorbing Canada?

Allan:

I am never quite sure if these questions that attempt to undermine Canada’s sovereignty are meant to be directly insulting towards Canadians, or if they are, in fact, genuine, yet naive, queries that stem from the need so many Americans seem to have to be constantly reassured by others that their country is powerful.

No matter their intention, questions like this are straight out of the Ugly American’s Handbook. (See: Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed, to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American Continent. )

I am literally embarrassed for those Americans who have an understanding of the world outside their borders who read questions like this, do a face-palm, and think, “Yeah, this is exactly why I am reluctant to travel abroad as an American." 

The US is absolutely not “exceptional” — no country is. Understand that.

At any rate, the question is stupid, as there is literally a 0% chance of the US “absorbing” Canada.

John Smith

Halifax