March 1st, 2025 | Grant Johnson

CanaDa's Anti-American Temper Tantrum: Why We Are The Problem

Canadians did most of this to themselves.

The latest progressive thing to sweep the land in Canada is to be patriotic by explicitly expressing vehement anti-Americanism. This is programming swill delivered to you by the same system that made wearing a surgical mask in public five years ago the height of moral accomplishment. The same Woke dorks who really cared about black people after George Floyd died of his drug overdose are now booing the U.S. anthem at hockey games. The same NPCs that put Ukrainian flags in their Facebook updates three years ago are now buying French’s ketchup at Costco and being all proud of themselves for doing so. 

Canadians are truly pathetic sheep. 

I recently deleted my Twitter account. Not because I hated it, but because I loved it too much and was wasting too much time on it. Furthermore, I started to get the sense that the algorithm was becoming a little too curated and manipulated. Around the time that Vivek Ramaswamy made a reasonable tweet and got piled on for it, I realized that Twitter, or X as it keeps trying to call itself, was just as weaponized in its own way as the old Woke social media sites were back in the day. I’m not a hater, I’m just trying to minimize social media manipulation and focus more of my online time on meaningful pieces that I can get from stuff like Substack or podcasts.

This has allowed me to fall a little outside the zeitgeist of where our day-by-day culture takes us. As a result, when the tariff talks began and there was an uptick in “Buy Canadian” sentiment, I really didn’t think too much of it. My take is that Canada has been left with its pants down while the rest of the world is getting ready to build the future. Trump is rightfully preparing America for the rest of the 21st century with muscular and ambitious policies that run counter to Woke nonsense and status quo thinking… and Americans are loving it. 

Meanwhile in Canada, our corrupt and incompetent ruling class is stumbling around like they never realized there are huge and fundamental problems raging within our borders. Team Canada? Are you kidding me? We’ve been living under a horrible regime that we’ve been warning people about in the pages of Poletical and PostCanadian for literally years. I’m supposed to cheer for these clowns now that Trump is exposing how shitty they all are?

Danielle Smith was obviously the only adult in politics to display diplomacy and tact with her charm offensive and she got pillored for it by the typical Woketards from coast-to-coast. I assumed that the masses would see through a lot of this, but as usual, I was wrong to overestimate the intelligence of the average propagandized Canadian.

I noticed acquaintances repeating the standard “We’re all in this together” type of rhetoric straight from the tv. People talking eagerly about reciprocal tariffs and loving the tough talk about trade warring with America. A guy I know felt the need to defend/explain a trip to Las Vegas that had long been booked. I thoroughly don’t care, but that’s where the legacy media is taking these people. Don’t even start browsing CBC articles about this trend or you’ll shake your head in dismay.

It’s crazy. Again.

I suspect if Trudeau had stayed on as Liberal leader his fortunes would be turning around about now. Having a nation of propagandized Canadians focusing their hate on Trump instead of “Fuck Trudeau” would have definitely given him a second chance. Nevertheless, Mark Carney might just position himself as the rescuer the Liberals need… less baggage than Trudeau and a blank slate for the regime to brand as the new Captain Canada.

Will Canadians fall for it?

Probably, but maybe not.

Pierre Poilevre was always an unappealing poindexter and it was only when Trudeau’s expiration date had hit (8 years for anyone really) that the public began to turn on Justin and blame him for everything. I can’t stand Trudeau, but he was doing some stuff near the end that was really good, like slapping 25% tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum and the two-month GST break (should’ve been longer).

But still, it was Trudeau that people didn’t like anymore. Like Nicolae Ceaușescu during his last speech, Justin finally realized that the people just didn’t like him anymore and his career was over. With a new Liberal leader in place and Trump as the new villain, the players are set for the Rubes in Canada to cheer and boo accordingly. All that remains is economic pain to shock Canadians into total submission.

How will that economic pain arrive?

It already has.

Trump’s threat of tariffs creates the results he’s hoping for without the downside of actually following through with the tariffs. The long-standing problems within Canada have been explicitly revealed, leading our pundits down east to bluster about “diversifying our economy” as though that has never been thought of before.

Businesses like mining giant, Barrick Gold are trying to figure out how to relocate to the U.S. More money is flowing out of Canada, than into it. Canadians are massively moving to the United States now. Canada’s richest province is poorer than the poorest U.S. state. Canada’s debt is at this point catastrophic. Our currency is in decline. After ten years of Liberal rule, we are in serious trouble. This is worse than 1984 and most people don’t realize that it’s only just the beginning.

So let’s say Canadians don’t retreat into Liberal faux-patriotism and instead give Poilevre a chance. What’s he going to do amongst all this decline? Make more speeches? Cut the carbon tax? Do stuff that Harper tried and failed to do ten years ago?

Speaking of Harper, I listened to a CBC podcast called, West Of Centre and they recently featured an interview with Jason Kenney. He was asked about diversifying our trade with countries other than the U.S. and his candid answer was surprising.

“I was part of a federal government that signed…free trade agreements with about 45 countries and we all hoped and believed that that would help us become less dependent on the American export market, but it didn’t really. Because we don’t make a lot of things, let’s be honest.” - Jason Kenney

What Harper learned and what Jason Kenney goes on struggling to articulate in a compassionate manner, is that Canada is kind of a loser country. We’ve got a loser’s mentality. Perhaps it has to some extent always been so, but when you look at the foundation of Canada it doesn’t really appear that way. 

We were once a pioneering people, branching out from coast-to-coast. Building railways and cultivating land. Canada was a tough and ruthless country and hardcore people built civilization throughout it. We made major strides and were full of ambition, but something went wrong. Maybe it was the introduction of socialism out West. Maybe it was the insularity of the Laurentian elites. Maybe it wasn’t any one thing in particular, but it seems that little by little throughout the 20th century, Canada failed to achieve its goals.

Think about the Avro Arrow. Think about the infiltration of Pierre Trudeau and the three wise men of Quebec taking over federal politics in Canada. Think of the hangover from Trudeau that lasted until 2000…and all the lost opportunity that went with it. Think about Nortel and then later Blackberry. Think about how hard Harper tried to put in the right policies, but with no real consequence. By the time Justin Trudeau was elected, people just wanted legalized weed and Wokeness.

Canada seems to have fast-tracked the whole “Hard Times make Hard Men, Hard Men Make Good Times, Good Times make Soft Men, Soft Men Make Hard Times” cycle into a 100-year time frame. We just aren’t the type of people we once were. You can have the right policies, but if you are implementing them on the wrong people nothing will change. The problem with Canada isn’t Justin Trudeau… it’s the population that elected him three times.

Our problems transcend the political winds of the day. That’s why all this Trump hate and tariff talk rings so hollow. It’s just more bluster in a world that is quickly becoming legitimately problematic for little old Canada. I’ve written before that Canada’s destiny seems to be that of a northern Argentina…not all bad, but much worse than the plucky, up-and-coming world power we thought we’d be 100 years ago. Now I see our Argentina-style decline as a best-case scenario.

If Trumpism survives Trump, but American decline isn’t halted, we may see much more U.S. aggression ten or twenty years from now than can be possibly imagined today. When and if it arrives, we are likely to be a country on the brink of insolvency and political chaos. Perhaps these recent events will help us change course, but I doubt it. Canadian retardation is as permanent a feature of our national landscape as our inevitable downward spiral. No amount of “AxiNg ThE tAx” or “BUilDinG THe HoUsEs” is going to solve any of that.