Loading ...I received this today via facebook — it’s a Canadian explaining to Americans why Canadians are so angry about 51st state comments.
Whether you agree with this persons point of view or not, the post contains an interesting historical timeline on Trump talking about Canada as the 51st state. To be clear, I don’t know the poster and cannot vouch for the information quoted, however, neither has anything been debunked.
One thing I’ve learned over the past few weeks, and it’s been a bit of a sobering lesson, is that a lot of Americans I know don’t actually know what’s going on between the US and Canada right now, and just how seriously Canadians are taking this. So, against my better judgement, here’s a timeline to explain why we’re here, and why we’re angry……..
The timeline IS the first comment………..
Then he concludes with the following:
To my American friends, I know most of you are amazing and generous people. You didn’t ask for this, and I understand that. I hold no ill will towards you, whatsoever. But I must stress, with as much seriousness as I can, the amount of damage this has done.
We have viewed you as our closest friend and ally for a century. We thought of you as brothers and sisters. We answered the call, again and again, for any support you needed from us. Most of Canadians visit the USA so much that we’ve seen more of the US than we have the rest of Canada.
American products have been taken off our shelves. Canadians are cancelling travel plans to the US. Photo after photo has been shared on social media of empty flights from Canada to the USA.
This isn’t a joke to us. We’re not overreacting. We don’t think he’s just saying this shit to cause chaos or negotiate a deal. We wholeheartedly believe that our closest ally and friend is about to bring violence across our border, economically destroy us, and eliminate our way of life.
The main driver for Canada’s creation in 1867 was SPECIFICALLY to not be part of America, and to end America’s very public threats and plans to annex our territory.
We’re angry. We’re really, really fucking angry. Open your eyes to what’s happening because we’re tired of trying to make you understand why and asking you why it seems like none of you care.
I still hope that there is time to repair this. I still believe that this is the result of one man’s plan to burn it all down. But time is running out, and fast.
One thing I’ve learned over the past few weeks, and it’s been a bit of a sobering lesson, is that a lot of Americans I know don’t actually know what’s going on between the US and Canada right now, and just how seriously Canadians are taking this. So, against my better judgement, here’s a timeline to explain why we’re here, and why we’re angry.
Nov 30th, 2018 – The United States, Canada and Mexico finalize a trade agreement. Trump personally negotiates the terms and signs the document, celebrating it as ‘the greatest trade agreement in history”. (This is important.)
Nov 29th, 2024 – In a face to face meeting at Mar-a-Lago, Trump threatens the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, that he will be imposing 25% tariffs and that if Canada wants to avoid that, it should join the US as a state.
Nov 30th, 2024 – Trump publicly calls our Prime Minister ‘Governor Trudeau’ and instructs his staff to only address him as Governor going forward. He again suggests Canada should join the USA.
Dec 3rd, 2024 – Trump remarks that he would split Canada into two states once annexed.
Dec 10th, 2024 – Trump posts that the majority of Canadians support annexation, despite public polling that only 13% of Canadians would consider the idea.
Dec 18th, 2024 – Trump again falsely states that the majority of Canadians support annexation and that one of his lapdogs, Wayne Gretzky, should have a leadership role in that new scenario.
Jan 7th, 2025 – At a press conference, Trump says that he would use economic force to destroy the Canadian economy to annex it.
Jan 14, 2025 – Trump again claims that most Canadians want to be American, despite new polls showing only 10% of us are open to the idea.
Jan 20th, 2025 – During his inaugural address, Trump says that the U.S. will ‘expand its territory’ during his second term.
Jan 23rd, 2025 – At the World Economic Forum, Trump says that Canada can avoid tariffs and economic collapse if it joins the US. He says this in front of representatives from most countries in the world.
Jan 24th, 2025 – During a press conference in North Carolina, President Trump reiterated his position, stating that Canada “will” become a U.S. state. He claims that under American governance, Canadians would benefit from “lower taxes” and “better health care.”
Jan 31st, 2025 – Trump announces a 25% tariff on all Canadian imports to begin the next day.
Feb 2nd, 2025 – Trump refers to Canada as its ‘Cherished 51st state’ and that it should join the US to avoid tariffs.
Feb 3rd, 2025 – A one month delay is agreed upon. Trump, in a conversation with Trudeau states that he doesn’t think existing border treaties with Canada are valid, and need to be revised.
Feb 7th, 2025 – In a closed door meeting with his cabinet, Prime Minister Trudeau is recorded, without his knowledge, telling everyone that he believes very strongly that Trump is serious and that he stated his reason for annexation as Canadian resources.
Feb 9th, 2025 – In a Super Bowl pre-game interview, Trump says that he’s serious about his threats, calling it a ‘viable consideration for expanding US territory’
Feb 10th, 2025 – Trump announces an additional 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada to come into effect March 12th.
Feb 24th, 2025 – Trump publicly remarks that whoever signed the USMCA agreement is an idiot. He was the one that signed it.
March 4th, 5th, and 6th 2025 – Tariffs come into effect. Canada retaliates with it’s own tariffs. Tariffs are again postponed until April 1st after a huge market backlash.
March 4th, 2025 – In an address to a joint session of congress, Trump states that the US will own Greenland ‘one way or the other’.
March 5th, 2025 – US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick told Canadian finance minister Dominic LeBlanc that Trump “had come to realize that the relationship between the United States and Canada was governed by a slew of agreements and treaties that were easy to abandon.”
March 7th, 2025 – Unconfirmed Memorandum and maps leaked on twitter reveal Trump is allegedly planning to annex the entirety of the great lakes and Southern Ontario, home to 13,491,332 Canadians. This amounts to 35.25% of Canada’s total population and includes its largest city, Toronto. This region accounts for 38% of the Canadian economy, and its loss would make Canada’s independence functionally impossible. *THIS IS STILL NOT OFFICIALLY VERIFIED*
March 7th, 2025 PT II – Trump claims to reporters that he had Canada’s dairy-tariff situation “well taken care of” at the time he left office the first time, “but under Biden, they just kept raising it.” In fact, Canada did not raise its dairy tariffs during the Biden administration.
March 7th, 2025 PT III – Peter Navarro, a senior trade adviser to Trump, says that Canada has been “taken over” by Mexican cartels. As a result, Canadians across the country laugh until they pass out.
March 8th, 2025 – Canada’s foreign minister warns European allies that their government considers Canada to be under existential threat. She emphasized that Canada’s current challenges could foreshadow similar threats to other nations, stating, “We are the canary in the coal mine. If the U.S. administration is doing that to Canada, you’re next.”
March 9th, 2025 – Mark Carney, the new Canadian Prime Minister, in his acceptance speech, states that Trump is seeking to destroy Canada, and its way of life.
March 11, 2025 – President Trump threatens to “permanently shut down the automobile manufacturing business in Canada” if Canada does not drop a 250% to 390% tariff on U.S. dairy products, which he doesn’t state only kicks in after a certain quantity of tariff-free U.S. dairy enters Canada, a quantity that was originally negotiated and agreed to by Trump during the USMCA in 2018.
In Trump’s own words, “The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear. Canadians’ taxes will be very substantially reduced, they will be more secure, militarily and otherwise, than ever before, there would no longer be a Northern Border problem, and the greatest and most powerful nation in the World will be bigger, better and stronger than ever — And Canada will be a big part of that. The artificial line of separation drawn many years ago will finally disappear, and we will have the safest and most beautiful Nation anywhere in the World — And your brilliant anthem, “O Canada,” will continue to play, but now representing a GREAT and POWERFUL STATE within the greatest Nation that the World has ever seen!”
March 11th, 2025 PT. II – Peter Navarro, a Senior Advisor for Trump is interviewed by MSNBC. When asked about the tariffs he responds with “Just tamp it down, please, over there, ok? They’re throwing down the hockey gloves. Stop that rhetoric…we’re not going to tolerate anything but them stopping killing Americans”, insinuating that this situation was caused by Canadians killing Americans. It’s assumed he’s referencing fentanyl, but he doesn’t specify the reason.
March 11th, 2025 PT III – Trump again publicly muses that Canada, Greenland, and the US should be one country, and questions the validity of the Canadian and American border.
March 11th, 2025 PT IV – Canada sells $3.5 Billion dollars of its US Bonds
March 11th, 2025 PT V – Trump claims in a social media post that Canada is “One of the highest tariffing countries in the world.” He also claims the trade deficit between the two nations is ‘$200 Billion dollars”.
Official US statistics show the 2024 deficit with Canada in goods and services trade was $35.7 billion
Despite Trump’s claims about Canadian tariffs, Canada is the 102nd-highest nation on a World Bank list of 137 countries’ trade-weighted average tariff rates in 2022 – and had a lower average (1.37%) than the United States (1.49%) that year, the most recent for which the data is available. This means the US tariffs more than Canada, with Canada being one of the most tariff free countries in the world.
March 12th, 2025 – Canadian Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc announces tariffs on $29.8B worth of U.S. goods. This includes tariffs on Steel, Aluminum, computers, tools, sporting equipment and cast iron products.
March 12th, 2025 Pt. II – Mark Carney, Canada’s incoming prime minister, expresses willingness to meet with Trump to renew economic and security partnerships between the two countries despite the challenges posed by the recent tariffs.
March 12th, 2025 Pt III – Widespread boycotts of American products across Canada and international markets begin making serious impacts on US economy
March 13th, 2025 – Trump claims that “they (Canada) don’t take our agricultural product for the most part”; he mentioned dairy, then said, “A little bit they do, but not much.” This is false even with Trump’s qualifiers. Canada was the world’s second-largest buyer of US agricultural exports in 2024, according to the US Department of Agriculture, purchasing about $28.4 billion worth.
March 13th, 2025 PT II – New polling shows 46% of Canadians are in favor of joining the EU, something that would have been pure fantasy just a few months ago.
March 13th, 2025 PT III – The Group of Seven (G7) ministers from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, along with the EU, meet in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada for two days of meetings.
March 13th, 2025 PT IV – Alaskan state-level politicians introduce resolutions to oppose Donald Trump’s “restrictive trade measures that would harm the unique Canada-U.S. relationship”
March 13th, PT V – A Canadian woman is arrested by ICE and has been held at the San Luis Detention Center in Arizona since March 3rd with 30 other individuals. Her mother, in an interview: “They are housed together in a single concrete cell with no natural light, fluorescent lights that are never turned off, no mats, no blankets, and limited bathroom facilities.”
March 13th, 2025 PT VI – Trump says that he would ‘allow Canada to keep their national anthem’ — as a US state.
“As a state, it would be one of the great states. This would be the most incredible country visually. If you look at the map, they do an artificial line right through it between Canada and the US. A straight artificial line. Somebody did it a long time ago. And it makes no sense. It’s so perfect as a great and cherished state”.
March 13th, 2025 PT VII – Trump’s choice for United States ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, says that “Canada is a sovereign state” when asked about Trump’s repeated threats to annex Canada and make it a U.S. state.
March 13th, 2025 PT VIII – ‘I think it’ll happen,’ the president said of annexing the island During his Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, when asked if the US will annex Greenland replied “I think it’ll happen. We really need it for national security. I think that is why NATO might have to get involved anyway’. Trump then noted the U.S. already has a military base on Greenland.
‘We have a couple of bases on Greenland already and we have quite a few soldiers. Maybe you will see more and more soldiers go there,’ he threatened. ‘We have bases and we have quite a few soldiers on Greenland.’
March 14th, 2025 – The stock market and economic data shows the following losses since January 2025:
1. S&P 500, Loss of 6.2% totaling $3.1 trillion
2. Nasdaq Composite, Loss of 10.6% totaling $2.65 trillion
3. Dow Jones Industrial Average, Loss of 4.1% totaling $450 billion
Estimated Total Loss Across All Three: $6.2 trillion USD
March 14th, 2025 PT II – Justin Trudeau officially steps down as Prime Minister of Canada and leader of the Liberal Party.
March 14th, 2025 PT III – Speaking at the G7, German foreign minister states : “To our Canadian friends: your country stands together. Canada’s unity inspires us. We Europeans, we Germans, and Canada are not only partners; we are close friends. And friends have each other’s back — always.”
March 14th, 2025 PT IV – Mark Carney is sworn is as the new Prime Minister of Canada. In his first speech he declares “We will never, ever, in any way, shape or form, be part of the United States.” He also expressed readiness to work with U.S. President Donald Trump despite ongoing trade tensions. Carney says he will visit France and the UK on his first overseas trip, adding that he currently has “no plans” to meet Trump but “looks forward” to speaking to him.
March 14th, 2025 PT V – When questioned about Trump’s comments, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Trump’s “argument about why Canada would be better off economically being a state, and I think that stands for itself.” He says this while standing on Canadian soil.
Cry me a river!
Agree!
From the Conservative weekly Newsletter:
Canada’s not strolling into this brawl fresh. A decade under Justin Trudeau left scars: wages flatlined since 2016, per Statistics Canada, while household debt hit 184% of disposable income—the G7’s worst, says the OECD. Home prices in Toronto and Vancouver devour 70% of median income, and economic growth since 2019 ranks dead last among 50 developed nations, per IMF data. Half of Canadians can’t cover a $200 emergency, and 40% live hand-to-mouth. A Nanos poll found 70% think the country’s broken; 42% are plotting an exit. This is a nation limping, not leaping, into Trump’s ring.
Trump’s playbook isn’t new—he’s wielded tariffs like a club before. In 2018, he hit Canadian steel with 25% and aluminum with 10%; Canada retaliated, and both sides felt the sting until a 2019 deal cooled it off. This time, he’s citing fentanyl and border security, though U.S. Customs data shows Canada’s share of fentanyl seizures dropped 97% from December 2024 to January 2025—down to half an ounce. The real driver? Leverage. He’s got it, and Canada doesn’t. The USMCA shields some trade—34% of Canada’s exports dodge tariffs for now—but April’s escalation could torch 120,000 auto jobs in Ontario alone, per industry estimates.
Carney and Ford could play smarter, not harder. Canada’s got cards—border security tweaks, fentanyl crackdowns, even slashing its own trade barriers (like the 270% dairy tariff that irks Trump). Give him wins that cost little and help Canadians—cheaper milk, less red tape—while dodging the existential hits. Instead, they’re posturing. Carney’s “we’ll win” bravado ignores the math; Ford’s brief electricity tariff on Michigan was a stunt he scrapped after one call with Howard Lutnick. It’s theater, not strategy, and it’s burning time Canada doesn’t have.
The fallout’s already brewing. Inflation’s ticking up—TD Economics pegs a 2.5-3% spike if tariffs stick—and the Bank of Canada might slash rates 50-75 basis points to soften the blow, weakening the loonie further. Auto plants, steel mills, and small businesses are bracing for a squeeze. An election’s coming, and voters might punish this gamble, but the Conservatives’ Pierre Poilievre keeps fumbling his pitch. Until then, Canada’s stuck with leaders betting on Trump’s bluff—except he’s not bluffing. He’s proven it.
This isn’t a trade war Canada can win—it’s a survival test it might not pass. The data’s clear: economic fragility, lopsided trade, and a foe who thrives on chaos. Carney and Ford need to ditch the swagger, cut a deal, and save what’s left. Pride’s a luxury Canada can’t afford right now.
A nice summary — but Canada is ruled by buffoons whose only loyalty is to themselves and the globalist world order!
Canada is as likely to be encouraged to join the EU (an abhorrent and completely irrelevant organization) by our WEF based leadership than it is to “cut a deal and save what’s left” with our long term friends, protectors & neighbours.
Carney was quoted yesterday as saying “Canada will never ever become part of the USA” — but for transparency he should have finished his statement by adding “and that’s because I intent to destroy Canada’s sovereignty myself by making it the poster child for the new Globalist UN/BIS/WEF orchestrated “New
World Order” and “One World Government” that will rule over all nations”!
Canada is NOT led by patriots willing to fight for and grow Canada — they battle only to determine which team should be allowed to destroy the sovereign nation and steal it’s natural wealth in the process!
The USA had to be dragged into almost total destruction by the actions of JB team before citizens “began” to realize that they were being raped and pillaged. Will Canadians be made to suffer similar attrocities before they figure out their basic rights and freedoms are being sold off to the highest bidder and they are mere chattels to the land auction already underway?
“The USA had to be dragged into almost total destruction by the actions of JB team before citizens “began” to realize that they were being raped and pillaged. Will Canadians be made to suffer similar attrocities before they figure out their basic rights and freedoms are being sold off to the highest bidder and they are mere chattels to the land auction already underway?”
Precisely. Perhaps too pugnaciously, but Trump is offering a lifeline (along with quid pro quos)… while using a stick … because times a wastin’.
Like most of the West, and indeed the world, I think recency bias has led people to believe they/we are all in a stronger economic position (and negotiating position) than they/we really are. De facto fiscal insolvency is the State of The World, and that includes the USA.
Trump knows it and hence DOGE and its urgency.
The cliff was imminent. If not in rear view.
Willful blindness by the political elite, and the complicit media, and a ‘heads in the sand’ public incapable of thinking for themselves or doing math (or recognizing their inability to do anything about an out of control bus with brake failure) has given folks a false sense of security. Bukele, Milei and now Trump have taken first steps away from the abyss. Too soon to say if they were too late, given the strong global current with its growing head winds.
Canada the Illusion – a history lesson on how and why the Nation gained it’s ‘independance’. The British sided against the Union in the civil war, no different today.
Is Canada a truly Independant Sovereign?
https://goldtadise.com/?p=654920