Canadian Unity at the Crossroads
Are we a democratic nation state or an Ostrich Patch, ready for culling?
This morning, Sunday May 25, 2025, RFK Junior intervened in a planned ‘Ostrich Cull’ here in BC. What??? Yes, our federal government claiming that said birds are a danger to chicken farms because of an outbreak of bird flu has gained the attention of the highest level of the USA government. The owners say that this particular farm in BC is nowhere near any big chicken farms and the Ostriches have developed natural immunity to the virus anyhow and also, they want to know who is responsible for the launching of a huge drone that assassinated the biggest male Ostrich last night?
No, you can’t make it up, can you, but it doesn’t look good for Canadian nationhood when the US has to come to the rescue of an Ostrich farm unfairly targeted by our Feds. The mind boggles as we contemplate the idiocy and also, the heavy symbolism at work here. It makes me think that we need to ask ourselves if we are now a post nation state, as Justin always said we were. What is a post nation state? It’s one where the democracy operates in a diminished form since all major decisions have been outsourced to global, unelected bodies like the IMF, the WHO, the United Nations and so on. Judging from the Ostrich debacle, it’s a simple deduction that we’re already there though not admitting it because well…Ostriches. But it does look like we need the US to bring reason and order into the Canadian barn. Again, think of the symbolism at work here. Because simultaneously, Canadians en masse have fallen victim to Trump Derangement Syndrome, pulling up stakes and wowing never to set foot across the border again, while governors of midwestern states convene awkward meetings in Canada to assure mad as hell Canadians that they, the midwestern US citizens, still love us and above all, need our cross border business.
Normally, Americans don’t worry much about us up here in the North of the continent because they’re so busy being a superpower and getting on with the pursuit of freedom and happiness that they generally forget we’re up here.
But that changed when Trump constantly made half-assed remarks about acquiring us as the fifty-first state. All of a sudden, we made international headlines, especially after our brand new Teflon Globalist PM Mark Carney came to visit Trump at the Greatest Show on Earth, the Oval Office, in full glare of world media.
During the election campaign, Carney had masqueraded as a warrior against Trump, declaring that our long standing friendship was ‘over’ and that henceforth, Canada would be dealing with the US with ‘elbows up’. This tough talk had been entirely forgotten by the time Carney actually sat down with Trump and made very nice with him. Without any elbows at all. But the elite in Canada was willing to overlook this as a minor quibble. Here is Fen Hanson Professor, of International Affairs at Canada’s Carleton University in Ottawa, commenting on the Oval office show:
“The way you engage Americans is on the issues that matter to them, and Carney is worldly enough to understand that they’re not very interested in Canada. They don’t really give a shit about Canada. He doesn’t care if tariffs send us back into the Stone Age or not. It’s about him. It’s all about America,” he added.
In other words, it doesn’t really matter if you lied to get elected. The only thing that matters is that we understand Americans and why they do what they do and let our elected officials, like Carney, cater to them.
Since then, Trump has made a host of ‘deals’, that is economic agreements with the UK and the entire Arabian peninsula. Well done. We’re still waiting for our Canadian deal. And again, Trump is threatening to land 50 % tariffs on all European goods, just to even the playing field. And back in Canada, the threat of a third of the country actually leaving our Confederation is morphing from a fringe issue into the central existential challenge it is. Quebec, Saskatchewan and Alberta are all weighing up the advantages of leaving.
Alberta has always been proud of being ‘the Canadian Texas’ and just like them, feels that they would make a darn good independent Republic. And they’re getting ready to test that idea because Albertans are mightily pissed: they are suffering from an arch-American grievance: Taxation without Representation. That is exactly what drove the American colonies to rebel against the British Crown. Alberta feels the same pain, colonialism included, only 300 years later. Which is also rather typical of Canadians, they tend to adopt American attitudes after the Americans have already moved on to the next thing. So, could this even happen? Yes, it could. And here is how:
Alberta’s secession movement hinges on a perfectly legal referendum asking citizens if they want to leave Canada and form their own country. As long as they can get 177,000 signatures, that is. We rebell with decorum in Canada. None of that unruly dumping of tea into harbours and engaging in gunfire with the Brits. The Premier has said she will allow it as long as the population demands it. Once Alberta gets the signatures to walk out, everyone will begin to realize that Canada as we knew it is over. And freak out in earnest.
This may take only one year to complete. For now, it’s a minority movement, but it’s growing.
It is well organized, has its own media network notably Rebel News among others, and even a well spoken policy wonk, a certain Peter McCaffrey. Who was actually born in Britain and grew up in NZ, all of which makes him very Canadian. He is young, serious and well, he has a refined accent that you only get elsewhere. Again, perfect. There are a number of organizations moving the referendum idea though at this writing, it doesn’t look like it’s going to fly. However. Right on cue, the French Canadians are, yet again, thinking about leaving. They’re having cozy chats with Danielle Smith, the Alberta premier, about collaborating. In addition, Saskatchewan is also eying the possibility of bailing on Canada. That’s roughly a third of the entire population of Canada musing about leaving it all behind. It’s a trend that is getting traction. Further growth can only be avoided if Carney manages to subdue these rebels with promises of pipelines, fewer restrictions on emissions and more respectful dialogue.
But never underestimate the cupidity and cunning of people like Carney. My bet is that he will promise this movement everything they want and deliver nothing while they hope and wait. This will turn out to be a mistake. And the sneering comments from the legacy press about Albertan rednecks wanting to leave the best country on earth are not helping. Neither is Carney’s known antipathy to anything to do with oil, pipelines and gas. Just look at his record, he is a Net Zero warrior. I doubt that he will simply give up his pet passion to please Canadian rebels. And it’s this that may just push Albertans to walk.
Carney knows this and has already begun The Promise Games by installing one of his oldest and most effective allies to head this disaster off at the pass. His buddy Tim Hodgson who proved his mettle at Goldman Sachs where he and Carney both made piles of money, is now the new Energy Minister. It is without a doubt the most difficult and important file in Carney’s government. Hodgson is known to be super focused and aggressive when it comes to getting things done. But words are nothing and so far, there are no signs of anything concrete. Parliament will not sit during the summer as it should if indeed they were planning to do anything of substance. They are going home to an ill deserved rest after almost a year of not sitting at all. Nobody paying attention could possibly pretend that we are governing ourselves. We are not. We’re being lulled into submission by an experienced globalist telling us fairytales. Like delivering on Carney’s promise to turn Canada into an ‘Energy Super Power’. During a May 23 speech to the assembled oil patch in Calgary, he laid it out.
And told everyone with a straight face that his government will turn Canada into a ‘conventional and green energy super power’ claiming that the Canadian oil patch is already ‘the best in the world’ when it comes to clean oil, responsible oil, good oil. He is well known to the people he was trying to convince; he has worked in the hydro sector and is an Albertan himself. Son of an army vet, something he stressed repeatedly. The audience seemed to buy it. Will Canadians? Will the separatist movement? That depends on how Carney delivers on this forked tongue promise. I don’t see how he can promote his Net Zero agenda while building pipelines and LNG plants. Something has to give. You could argue that the international fight over the questionable Climate Change agenda is going to be decided right here. Whatever the outcome, someone is going to lose, either a country or an entire way of thinking about the world.
But don’t count out the Americans. If things get too crazy up here, and the country starts falling into pieces, they may just be tempted to come in and put the entire Canadian mess, Ostriches and all, under a Protectorate. Like Puerto Rico. That’s not full statehood, but it means that Canada would be governed from Washington, not Ottawa, while retaining some of its rights to regulate lower level stuff, like internal trade. It would be terrible but Canada is so weak and fractious that it would have to submit. Carney would, of course, run and hide in a bank bunker somewhere. Where he could write his Canadian Memoirs. He too is a Canadian, the type who leaves, makes his Mark (pun intended) somewhere else and then comes home to …wreck it. He is the type of Canadian who is just exploiting his fake image for reasons of personal gain. See Brookfield Asset Management et al.
Like his friend, the comedian Mike Myers. Together, they appealed to the boomer generation who don’t recognize a crisis when it hits them on the head. Or for that matter, know whom to trust. They don’t seem to realize that Canada is caught in a vise between two unfriendly superpowers, and by failing to stop China’s meddling in Canadian politics, we antagonized and alarmed our old friends, the Americans. Bad choice. Instead of electing a young, intelligent and experienced home grown Canadian politician like Poilievre to run the country, we chose a slick banker with extremist views and links to all the wrong people, like powerful globalists who have no skin in Canada’s game. Two bad choices resulting in a world of bad outcomes.
Welcome to Canada, Canadians and the biggest battle we have ever faced: the one about our survival as a nation and our cherished if somewhat vague identity.
Neither is now assured.
And some Canadians say, well, we get what we deserve. Like Chris Donison, one of the best informed and connected fifth generation Canadians I know, who said this:
“Canadian” is an adjective to describe a class of people that reside mostly north of the United States of America and are the manifestation of the most pronounced case in all of history of collective passive aggressivity, smugness, lucky circumstance yet ingratitude, and sanctimonious self-delusion to the point of mass psychosis — on planet Earth.
So there you have it. Betting on Canada has now become a kind of underground sport. The world’s media is focused on us for a reason: they smell blood in the water. I personally believe the globalist sharks are circling for a feast and when they’re done, the country I entered with such hope as a thirteen year old immigrant in 1953, will be gone. Kaput, as they say in Germany.
Bidding adieu to my ill defined Canadian identity is wrenching. It wasn’t what I hoped to be doing in my old age. But it’s coming. And I blame a feckless and fearful electorate and a predatory class of international financiers for this calamity.
May they fester in a cold hell forever.