Docs, this is such a timely article. It makes me furious how our Canadian flag is now being embraced when it was said to be anything but patriotic just several years ago. Since Trudeau and the Liberals took charge our country has never been more divided. Now he’s walking around like a rock star. Meanwhile President Trump becomes a punching bag. Dam Canadians are so dumb and falling into the media trap, once again.
Thank you for another insightful and eloquently written piece! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I’m genuinely pleased to see Americans elect Donald Trump, as his administration’s efforts to challenge woke leftism, restore meritocracy, and move away from identity politics and gender ideology have been refreshing. The divisive and often racially charged policies that have infiltrated our institutions have, in my view, caused significant harm to Western values. I remain hopeful that with the upcoming election, our political landscape will shift, allowing us as Canadians to take pride in our nation once again, rather than being burdened by accusations of being "racist" or "genocidal."
Hey Oleg, I have to tell the energy and enthusiasm down here in the US is contagious. US flags much more visible, people smiling and laughing more, saying what they think and believe more, etc. Every day more winning from firing tens of thousands of government employees, demanding they show up for work, deporting illegal immigrants, dismantling deep state, etc.
it’s like your football team just signed Tom Brady; realist hope for the future and your children. That’s Team Trump.
We are in Florida. I golf with different people every day and have had a range, but the most common reaction by far to hearing I'm Canadian is asking (carefully) what I think of the whole Trump thing, then being relieved when I'm not a crazy leftie. I have had a rare few who are firmly Trump-Deranged, but they are rare. Overall I agree - there is a positive vibe here. Free speech is back, there is hope for shrinking government. Nefarious spending and other government misdeeds are coming to light. A lot of good stuff going on.
The tariffs are interesting. I see the reasoning behind trying to become less reliant on imports, given global political instability. But OTOH there is an element of Trump et al shooting themselves in the foot economically as clearly some things will be more expensive for the consumer. Where does the balance lie? Who am I to say.
I find it weird that Canadians have a victim mentality around the tariffs, as if Trump and the US citizenry OWE us a market for our products. Rather than getting angry at Trudeau for blocking pipelines, hampering the development of export markets in other ways, and as a specific example refusing to sign an LNG deal with Japan (that went to the USA), we instead scream and wail and become more Trump deranged. If we had a more diversified export market, these tariffs could be easily brushed off. We have allowed ourselves to become far too dependent on the USA - for both markets and military protection. We need to stand on our own two feet.
I’ve been following the developments in the U.S. closely since Trump’s election, and I find a lot of what’s happening domestically quite interesting. However, I’m concerned about the tariffs being imposed on Canada, as they could have a significant negative impact on us. That said, it does feel like a wake-up call in many ways. I completely agree with your post!
Trudeau divided us with hate around COViD policy. Called a snap election thinking it would increase his hold on power. Same strategy again using hate to divide us. Sanctimonious opportunism.
I had the misfortune of reading a bit of a G&M op-ed by Andrew Coyne (his picture is in Wikipedia if you look up "Trump Derangement Syndrome". The word sanctimonious sprung to mind to describe it.
In general, I find that this incredibly vehement anti-Trumpism is at it's base very judgmental and anti-Christian. It requires believing the idea that the half of the citizenry who support him are evil/malicious/beyond hope. Rather than hate him and everything he stands for, I wish more people would take a deep breath and try to understand him and those who support him. It's what I had to do in 2015, since as all good Canadians I had an immediate aversive reaction to him.
When Trump got in the first time I was floored. It wasn’t until July 2024 when the Democrats proved how corrupt they were and I started looking closer at Republican policy that I shed my TDS and took the red pill.
My view on Trump changed in 2016 when an older American who I have infinite respect for told me that she voted for him, and why. She is a first-wave feminist, in her 80's, a woman with a long career, great kids. First-rate human being. I nearly fell over at first, but after listening to her explain why she could overlook his shortcomings, it really made me step back and look at him without the anti-American, legacy-media tinted glasses. I didn't start to LOVE him, but I did accept him and those who vote for him. No human being is worthy of a pedestal, and we have to take the bad with the good as not one of us is perfect.
Agree! Trudeau stated we didn’t have a culture or identity! He’s divisive, using the ‘divide and conquer’ mentality :(. The coalition he’s in with Jags is destroying Canada’s reputation on the world stage increasing our liability due to photo ops and donating to a war that isn’t ours!! Leave Putin and Zelensky alone, we can’t afford to supply arms or people. Protect OUR military!! Protect suffering Canadians!!! You’ve stepped down Justin, shut up and leave!!!! We have a $63 BILLION liability to pay off :(
Dear Stephen Quinn, CBC Radio, What does "Pride goes before a fall" mean? Do any of "those convoy types" deliver your groceries? Could you please do a few programs with "experts" who explain what truckers/the working class do for Cda? And are we still "all in this together?"
This sudden outbreak of overt anti-Americanism is very reminiscent of how quickly Canadians took to vilifying "anti-vaxxers" and "anti-maskers" during COVID. We are easily led, and deeply judgmental. Evil politicians tap into our age-old human vices.
The responsibilty lies with the individual to turn and face their own darkness. Until it is brought to light, it will forever be projected onto the Other.
It's ironic that the man we so hate has done more for Canadian "unity" with the stroke of a pen than Our Glorious Leader has a accomplished during his pathetic 10 year reign. Of course, unity that is built on hatred is not unity at all. Just another day in Trudopia.
Interesting that you mentioned Dalhousie University which Nova Scotians used to be proud of. The same University which accepts funds from both the provincial and federal Colonists while at the same time proving to us that they know nothing about Evidence Based Medicine or Medical ethics. Apparently they still require all med students to be fully jabbed.
I will write about it sometime, but I was removed from the Dal Med School admissions committee for wrongthink. I suggested that it was dangerous to lower standards for black and indigenous student admissions, and insulting to those groups. I suggested that an outreach program to those communities to help their young people rise to the necessary standard was more positive and safe for patients. I found out that their push for "diversity" is only measured by skin tone, not by philosophy or political persuasion.
Our medical system is badly broken. The doctors and nurses are taught there is a pill for every ill. Taught to focus on the organ and to hell with the organism. My biggest medical fear is iatrogenisis followed closely by nosocomial infection. However I did have to see a medical professional annually to get a medical for my commercial drivers license which the new NP filled out wrong (put in severe COPD instead of mild) causing me to loose my license and I will probably never get back. Because of the wait times to see a primary care professional and then the wait for diagnostics, if I have an acute illness I just waite for Mother Nature for cure me or kill me. As far as diagnostics there is a one year wait for test for HCC which you know has 5 year survival rate of zero and a 1 year survival rate of around 10 %. I saved the NS taxpayer some money by refuseing the test.
I have alot of sympathy for todays medical professionals. 99% of these individuals get into medicine to help people only to learn the system of Colleges,the government and the insurance industry tie their hands with guard rails such as standard of care, one size fits all medicine. It must be very stressful.
Yes it is shitty for those of us in that boat. That said, because med schools and nursing schools make DEI a requirement of admission and graduation now, there are more and more "true believers" amongst the younger generation of docs and nurses. You are safer in the care of someone older, on average.
When the maple leaf was selected as a flag, my father said it was yet another symbol of the Laurentian elite proclaiming their control over people who wanted nothing to do with them. At the time, as a child, I didn't understand but I certainly do now.
As a fellow True North Strong And Free'er I am only going to add that everything that has happened to our great nation since 2015 is by design. Not because we elected Trudeau, although that is certainly a key piece of it, but because we fell prey to hubris and did not see the wolf in sheep's clothing standing right behind him.
The Wolf disguised as a sheep is Ms. Freeland. She came as his handler, you see she happens to have a Canadian Birth Certificate, she is Ukrainian, raised in Ukraine and was expelled from Russia for spreading Fascist ideology there right around the time JT graduated from the YGL program.
So why does that matter?
You see our Justin is a Young Global Leaders graduate but not a very smart guy, he does have great hair and a nice pedigree though. I am sure it did not take much convincing or ego massaging to set his sites on following in daddy's foot steps. As a not so smart guy he needed a babysitter, hence Freeland appears on the scene.
Anyhoo, so what the heck is the Young Global Leaders you ask. YGL is an indoctrination program run by the WEF (World Economic Forum) even Vladimir Putin is a graduate, Class of 1993, and Chrystia (Christina) Freeland is niece to the WEF founder Klaus Schwab whose father was a Nazi. Freeland's grandparents were close personal friends of Adolph Hitler so also Nazi's. This is not breaking news. Freeland has also maintained a seat on the Board of Trustee's for the WEF the whole time she was/is in government. That is against our laws but don't bother reporting it because the RCMP and CSIS already know and don't care, they are a part of it.
The World as we know it today is about to collapse, that is by design. The Freeland's and the Schwab's are just cogs in a greater machine to be sure but they have a 33 year head start. The real driver of the change from democracy to totalitarianism is the United Nations and their plan is called Agenda 21 - The plan for future Sustainable Development which on cursory inspection doesn't sound all that bad but when you really dig into it you start to see very concerning phrases such as 'global stakeholders' who are not you an me in case you were wondering. I have a copy, you can get it from my encrypted group chat -
We should have kept the great Canadian Red Ensign....I think the libwokistas still say that that flag in its varients, under which Canadians fought proudly, is a symbol of racism, misogyny, far right fascism and settler-colonialist hatey-hateism....oh, and probably climate denialism and transphobia. Perhaps the deluge of anti Trump, the great enemy of us in Oceania, psyops propaganda slurry, will rehabilitate it too!
We’ve always flown our flag proudly, even more so after the freedom convoy, that was true unity! Now what? We’re still proud Canadians but have serious reservations about flying the flag.
I’m thinking maybe fly the Canadian flag but also the “fuck trudeau” flag on one side and the American flag on the other?
It's been interesting down here in the US. I notice that folks are really cautious about political talk after they find out I'm from Canada, unless they are crazy leftie, in which case they assume I am too and feel free to bash Trump. But more of the folks down here are on the other side, and they are cautious to say anything against Trudeau until they know that it's safe to talk that way with me.
Docs, this is such a timely article. It makes me furious how our Canadian flag is now being embraced when it was said to be anything but patriotic just several years ago. Since Trudeau and the Liberals took charge our country has never been more divided. Now he’s walking around like a rock star. Meanwhile President Trump becomes a punching bag. Dam Canadians are so dumb and falling into the media trap, once again.
I am so deeply ashamed of our politicians. And disgusted..
Thank you for another insightful and eloquently written piece! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I’m genuinely pleased to see Americans elect Donald Trump, as his administration’s efforts to challenge woke leftism, restore meritocracy, and move away from identity politics and gender ideology have been refreshing. The divisive and often racially charged policies that have infiltrated our institutions have, in my view, caused significant harm to Western values. I remain hopeful that with the upcoming election, our political landscape will shift, allowing us as Canadians to take pride in our nation once again, rather than being burdened by accusations of being "racist" or "genocidal."
Hey Oleg, I have to tell the energy and enthusiasm down here in the US is contagious. US flags much more visible, people smiling and laughing more, saying what they think and believe more, etc. Every day more winning from firing tens of thousands of government employees, demanding they show up for work, deporting illegal immigrants, dismantling deep state, etc.
it’s like your football team just signed Tom Brady; realist hope for the future and your children. That’s Team Trump.
We are in Florida. I golf with different people every day and have had a range, but the most common reaction by far to hearing I'm Canadian is asking (carefully) what I think of the whole Trump thing, then being relieved when I'm not a crazy leftie. I have had a rare few who are firmly Trump-Deranged, but they are rare. Overall I agree - there is a positive vibe here. Free speech is back, there is hope for shrinking government. Nefarious spending and other government misdeeds are coming to light. A lot of good stuff going on.
The tariffs are interesting. I see the reasoning behind trying to become less reliant on imports, given global political instability. But OTOH there is an element of Trump et al shooting themselves in the foot economically as clearly some things will be more expensive for the consumer. Where does the balance lie? Who am I to say.
I find it weird that Canadians have a victim mentality around the tariffs, as if Trump and the US citizenry OWE us a market for our products. Rather than getting angry at Trudeau for blocking pipelines, hampering the development of export markets in other ways, and as a specific example refusing to sign an LNG deal with Japan (that went to the USA), we instead scream and wail and become more Trump deranged. If we had a more diversified export market, these tariffs could be easily brushed off. We have allowed ourselves to become far too dependent on the USA - for both markets and military protection. We need to stand on our own two feet.
I’ve been following the developments in the U.S. closely since Trump’s election, and I find a lot of what’s happening domestically quite interesting. However, I’m concerned about the tariffs being imposed on Canada, as they could have a significant negative impact on us. That said, it does feel like a wake-up call in many ways. I completely agree with your post!
Trudeau divided us with hate around COViD policy. Called a snap election thinking it would increase his hold on power. Same strategy again using hate to divide us. Sanctimonious opportunism.
I had the misfortune of reading a bit of a G&M op-ed by Andrew Coyne (his picture is in Wikipedia if you look up "Trump Derangement Syndrome". The word sanctimonious sprung to mind to describe it.
In general, I find that this incredibly vehement anti-Trumpism is at it's base very judgmental and anti-Christian. It requires believing the idea that the half of the citizenry who support him are evil/malicious/beyond hope. Rather than hate him and everything he stands for, I wish more people would take a deep breath and try to understand him and those who support him. It's what I had to do in 2015, since as all good Canadians I had an immediate aversive reaction to him.
When Trump got in the first time I was floored. It wasn’t until July 2024 when the Democrats proved how corrupt they were and I started looking closer at Republican policy that I shed my TDS and took the red pill.
My view on Trump changed in 2016 when an older American who I have infinite respect for told me that she voted for him, and why. She is a first-wave feminist, in her 80's, a woman with a long career, great kids. First-rate human being. I nearly fell over at first, but after listening to her explain why she could overlook his shortcomings, it really made me step back and look at him without the anti-American, legacy-media tinted glasses. I didn't start to LOVE him, but I did accept him and those who vote for him. No human being is worthy of a pedestal, and we have to take the bad with the good as not one of us is perfect.
Agree! Trudeau stated we didn’t have a culture or identity! He’s divisive, using the ‘divide and conquer’ mentality :(. The coalition he’s in with Jags is destroying Canada’s reputation on the world stage increasing our liability due to photo ops and donating to a war that isn’t ours!! Leave Putin and Zelensky alone, we can’t afford to supply arms or people. Protect OUR military!! Protect suffering Canadians!!! You’ve stepped down Justin, shut up and leave!!!! We have a $63 BILLION liability to pay off :(
https://x.com/alanfryermedia/status/1889761889670058148 This ignorant post from CBC's Stephen Quinn is an apt "PS" to your timely substack. My response to it:
Dear Stephen Quinn, CBC Radio, What does "Pride goes before a fall" mean? Do any of "those convoy types" deliver your groceries? Could you please do a few programs with "experts" who explain what truckers/the working class do for Cda? And are we still "all in this together?"
"...the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance 1841
This sudden outbreak of overt anti-Americanism is very reminiscent of how quickly Canadians took to vilifying "anti-vaxxers" and "anti-maskers" during COVID. We are easily led, and deeply judgmental. Evil politicians tap into our age-old human vices.
The responsibilty lies with the individual to turn and face their own darkness. Until it is brought to light, it will forever be projected onto the Other.
It's ironic that the man we so hate has done more for Canadian "unity" with the stroke of a pen than Our Glorious Leader has a accomplished during his pathetic 10 year reign. Of course, unity that is built on hatred is not unity at all. Just another day in Trudopia.
Well said!
Interesting that you mentioned Dalhousie University which Nova Scotians used to be proud of. The same University which accepts funds from both the provincial and federal Colonists while at the same time proving to us that they know nothing about Evidence Based Medicine or Medical ethics. Apparently they still require all med students to be fully jabbed.
I will write about it sometime, but I was removed from the Dal Med School admissions committee for wrongthink. I suggested that it was dangerous to lower standards for black and indigenous student admissions, and insulting to those groups. I suggested that an outreach program to those communities to help their young people rise to the necessary standard was more positive and safe for patients. I found out that their push for "diversity" is only measured by skin tone, not by philosophy or political persuasion.
All that to say, the fully jabbed thing is one of the least egregious things Dal has done.
But I'm sure ripping down all the historical photos of our deans (TOO WHITE! TOO MALE!) will fix everything.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/medical-school-removes-portraits-of-old-white-former-deans-in-name-of-diversity/
All I can say is, God help us all if we need medical care in the future. This is NOT going well.
Our medical system is badly broken. The doctors and nurses are taught there is a pill for every ill. Taught to focus on the organ and to hell with the organism. My biggest medical fear is iatrogenisis followed closely by nosocomial infection. However I did have to see a medical professional annually to get a medical for my commercial drivers license which the new NP filled out wrong (put in severe COPD instead of mild) causing me to loose my license and I will probably never get back. Because of the wait times to see a primary care professional and then the wait for diagnostics, if I have an acute illness I just waite for Mother Nature for cure me or kill me. As far as diagnostics there is a one year wait for test for HCC which you know has 5 year survival rate of zero and a 1 year survival rate of around 10 %. I saved the NS taxpayer some money by refuseing the test.
I have had more and more patients suffer and die on wait lists, including with aggressive cancers. It is very, very sad.
I have alot of sympathy for todays medical professionals. 99% of these individuals get into medicine to help people only to learn the system of Colleges,the government and the insurance industry tie their hands with guard rails such as standard of care, one size fits all medicine. It must be very stressful.
Yes it is shitty for those of us in that boat. That said, because med schools and nursing schools make DEI a requirement of admission and graduation now, there are more and more "true believers" amongst the younger generation of docs and nurses. You are safer in the care of someone older, on average.
When the maple leaf was selected as a flag, my father said it was yet another symbol of the Laurentian elite proclaiming their control over people who wanted nothing to do with them. At the time, as a child, I didn't understand but I certainly do now.
My grandfather like many Canadians with a Commonwealth background, wanted to keep the Red Ensign. He liked to call it "Pearson's Bathmat"
Absolutely Adore this article!
As a fellow True North Strong And Free'er I am only going to add that everything that has happened to our great nation since 2015 is by design. Not because we elected Trudeau, although that is certainly a key piece of it, but because we fell prey to hubris and did not see the wolf in sheep's clothing standing right behind him.
The Wolf disguised as a sheep is Ms. Freeland. She came as his handler, you see she happens to have a Canadian Birth Certificate, she is Ukrainian, raised in Ukraine and was expelled from Russia for spreading Fascist ideology there right around the time JT graduated from the YGL program.
So why does that matter?
You see our Justin is a Young Global Leaders graduate but not a very smart guy, he does have great hair and a nice pedigree though. I am sure it did not take much convincing or ego massaging to set his sites on following in daddy's foot steps. As a not so smart guy he needed a babysitter, hence Freeland appears on the scene.
Anyhoo, so what the heck is the Young Global Leaders you ask. YGL is an indoctrination program run by the WEF (World Economic Forum) even Vladimir Putin is a graduate, Class of 1993, and Chrystia (Christina) Freeland is niece to the WEF founder Klaus Schwab whose father was a Nazi. Freeland's grandparents were close personal friends of Adolph Hitler so also Nazi's. This is not breaking news. Freeland has also maintained a seat on the Board of Trustee's for the WEF the whole time she was/is in government. That is against our laws but don't bother reporting it because the RCMP and CSIS already know and don't care, they are a part of it.
The World as we know it today is about to collapse, that is by design. The Freeland's and the Schwab's are just cogs in a greater machine to be sure but they have a 33 year head start. The real driver of the change from democracy to totalitarianism is the United Nations and their plan is called Agenda 21 - The plan for future Sustainable Development which on cursory inspection doesn't sound all that bad but when you really dig into it you start to see very concerning phrases such as 'global stakeholders' who are not you an me in case you were wondering. I have a copy, you can get it from my encrypted group chat -
https://signal.group/#CjQKIDhBSAQQ_EXoHZUmReikOu9-WsXhu4ljw7txAcJDcOTfEhA-xHPmELGN-8j8GITJtNWl
We should have kept the great Canadian Red Ensign....I think the libwokistas still say that that flag in its varients, under which Canadians fought proudly, is a symbol of racism, misogyny, far right fascism and settler-colonialist hatey-hateism....oh, and probably climate denialism and transphobia. Perhaps the deluge of anti Trump, the great enemy of us in Oceania, psyops propaganda slurry, will rehabilitate it too!
We’ve always flown our flag proudly, even more so after the freedom convoy, that was true unity! Now what? We’re still proud Canadians but have serious reservations about flying the flag.
I’m thinking maybe fly the Canadian flag but also the “fuck trudeau” flag on one side and the American flag on the other?
Too much? 🤣
It's been interesting down here in the US. I notice that folks are really cautious about political talk after they find out I'm from Canada, unless they are crazy leftie, in which case they assume I am too and feel free to bash Trump. But more of the folks down here are on the other side, and they are cautious to say anything against Trudeau until they know that it's safe to talk that way with me.
I have an extra fuck trudeau ball cap you can borrow, that will leave no doubt as to where you stand :)
My preferred flag is the upside-down Canadian flag. I acknowledge that my country is in extreme distress, even though some don’t know it.
Some old world solzhenitsyn lessons needed.
Just came across this piece. Been saying the same thing on my stack. Finally the algorithm is swinging in my favour!
Hah! I know people who are going to be seriously conflicted by this!