[Sundaycommunity] Canada

Fri Feb 14 17:29:07 PST 2025

Some thoughts
For what they’re worth
The community has an incredible depth of outstanding  analyses And
We have been sharing very intelligent and thought-provoking reflections on
what is happening in the United States, And as always, the United States
takes itself as the leader of the world. Nothing new there.

But I fear  There is a danger we are losing ourselves in this as Canadians.

“ Trump”. Is actually the main candidate in both our federal and provincial
elections right now

Having him as the head of the agenda has effectively ended discussion.
Regarding The real needs  of the  people  of  Ontario or Canada.

In Ontario from my perspective, Marit Stiles  Leader of the Ontario NDP. Is
focussing constructively on the needs of people in the north of Ontario
—in the cities   —and everywhere in between.
Heakth , education, housing are foremost among the realities which the
Ontario government is responsible for.

Unfortunately, Ford seems to be using” Trump” As his ticket to get
reelected.

As for the federal government,
It is definitely responsible for protecting the Canadian economy, as all of
us are a part of that—  And preventing Foreign interference or penalization.
As well as threats to federal sovereignty.
However, even here there are enormous issues for Canadians again,   Housing
and healthcare being probably. the most important as well as the ongoing
inequality and for Indigenous Canadians.
Furthermore, at this moment, we are quietly overlooking the extreme
increase in deaths as a result of assisted suicide, And what this points to
as what is lacking in total healthcare For the vulnerable.

Now the government Is moving towards MAiD By advanced directives.  As
someone said to me the ultimate in ageism.
No one is engaging in a serious discussion of how this would change every
relationship we have with older people in our lives.

 These are just some examples of what we are not talking about.
Yes,  That Man takes all the air out of the room and  Is being given
dominance all the air waves.
But Do we not have our own province and country As our first priority?

I feel every time I say his name I’m giving him what he wants.

Anyway, those are a few thoughts that I thought I just voice

Thanks again for all the sharing.
Martha

On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM Dean Riley via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Thank you for your thought provoking question, Jean. A friend once told me
> that on her frequent visits to the US, she always had the troubling sense
> that the nation had a very thin, false, shiny veneer of prosperity that
> reflected the illusion of being a civilized, just & kind society… But she
> always had the suspicion that if you could just scrap off a tiny bit of
> that shiny veneer, you’d reveal a vicious barbarism beneath.
>
> On Feb 14, 2025, at 2:59 PM, Jean Leahy via Sundaycommunity <
> sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
>
> 
> IS the U.S. a Christian country or a Martian Mammonite country?
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM Dean Riley via Sundaycommunity <
> sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
>
>> Food for thought…
>>
>> Dean.
>>
>> -::-::-::-
>>
>> When the Mask Slips
>> Gordon F.D. Wilson
>> *(Former Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of British
>> Columbia)*
>>
>>
>> Over the weekend, master media manipulator Donald Trump took time out of
>> his busy schedule to send a cyber raspberry to pop star Taylor Swift, who
>> faced the rudeness of some fans at the weekend Super Bowl, and declared
>> that “MAGA is very unforgiving!”
>>
>> If Trump and Swift were competing entertainers with a feud like Drake and
>> Lamar, the unprovoked remark might be explained away as a deliberate
>> attempt to gain publicity to advance both careers, but he isn’t; Trump is
>> the President of the United States.
>>
>> Trump’s remarks were designed to deflect from the systematic
>> implementation of an agenda that, beneath the Make America Great (economic)
>> mask, lies a much more sinister far-white agenda.
>>
>> On February 9th on NBC news, Mike Waltz, Trump’s National Security
>> Advisor, responded to a question concerning Trump’s intention to annex
>> Canada, to which he replied, “I don’t think there are any plans to invade
>> Canada, but we are committed to getting rid of liberal progressive
>> government.” Trump intends, Waltz said, “to assert American leadership from
>> Greenland, the Arctic to the Panama Canal, including controlling Arctic
>> defense.”
>>
>> Fortress North America is not a new concept.
>>
>> At its foundation is the idea that Canada and the United States are
>> Anglo-American (white) states with a shared, albeit different, colonial
>> origin and are Christian countries.
>>
>> This belief is at the root of the MAGA philosophy, despite being
>> sufficiently masked with promises of lower taxes, smaller government, and
>> more working-class employment in the last election not to alienate ethnic
>> voters.
>>
>> The challenge was to get Trump elected, and they met that challenge. His
>> vindictive post gave us a glimpse at the nature of the man behind the
>> authoritative mask of the America First agenda.
>>
>> Trump’s visceral dislike for Swift is not because she backed Kamala
>> Harris, but for who she is and the values she represents.
>>
>> That is also the reason that Canada is in his crosshairs.
>>
>> Canadians, while not perfect, embrace multiculturalism, support two
>> official languages, acknowledge past colonial injustice toward Indigenous
>> people, and have made reconciliation a priority.
>>
>> Canadians take pride as a country in not having to spend billions
>> building a military, choosing instead to try to resolve issues through
>> diplomacy and dialogue, and we prefer to respect the faiths of all people,
>> with a Charter of Rights and Freedoms that ensures that every Canadian is
>> equal to every other Canadian.
>>
>> We are the Whos of Whoville and Grinch Trump can’t stand to hear us sing,
>> not because he doesn’t like the song, but because our common values are the
>> antithesis of the unmasked MAGA philosophy of a superior Christian
>> Anglo-European ancestry as it was at the time of their founding fathers.
>>
>> Trump has repeatedly said that he intends to replace Canada’s sovereign
>> authority and annex the country into a 51st state, and these are not simply
>> musings. He has a plan.
>>
>> Three weeks ago, Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH), when interviewed
>> by Kaitlin Collins on CNN The Source, was challenged by Collins about the
>> need for tariffs against Canada, calling out Trump’s false narrative about
>> the amounts of drugs leaving Canada. Davidson responded that Trump is
>> “shaping electoral politics in Canada.”
>>
>> Trump believes there are enough Canadians fed up with “the adolescent
>> egos of the university-woke” that they will engineer a shift toward
>> becoming a US state.
>>
>> The thing is, he might not be wrong.
>>
>> Canadians insist this will never happen, committing to stand against any
>> external threat of annexation, but the greatest threat to this country
>> comes from within.
>>
>> It’s like we are standing on a sandy beach so fixated on the wash of the
>> incoming Trump tide that we are oblivious to the fact that the tide’s
>> advance is sucking away the oxygen that gives firmness to the sand and
>> slowly sinking up to our knees, leaving us stuck and without recourse.
>>
>> It has happened before.
>>
>> Canadians need to refresh their memories concerning the relationship
>> between Germany and neighbouring Austria in the years from the 1934
>> attempted coup through to the Anschluss in 1938, when 99.8% of Austrians
>> who voted in a German-administered referendum chose to join Germany.
>>
>> Germany left it up to Austrian sympathizers within the country to
>> destabilize, spread lies through their propaganda, and convince Austrian
>> Chancellor Schuschnigg that he could protect his country from a German
>> invasion by giving credibility to Hitler’s false narratives and
>> exaggerations. He believed corrupt countrymen who told him if he met
>> Hitler’s demands, it would remove any excuse for annexation. He tried, and
>> it failed.
>>
>> The situation we face today is not quite so dire, at least not yet. But
>> to be mindful of bad history gives us the choice not to repeat it.
>>
>> The fact is the MAGA mantra is so pervasive and aggressive in some
>> quarters that Canadians should start to pay attention and think carefully
>> before voting.
>>
>> We are hearing the same rhetorical commentary calling to get rid of the
>> woke, liberal, progressive government referenced by Trump’s National
>> Security Advisor, and Poilievre, much like Trump, plans to slash the civil
>> service and gut Canadian international aid to have money to build a
>> military base in the Arctic with the surplus along with dollars from
>> Canadian-imposed tariffs against US goods going to reduce our taxes.
>>
>> It is the Trump playbook.
>>
>> If history has taught us anything, that course of action will do little
>> more than pull us in line with the MAGA regime to our south, leaving little
>> else to do, beyond handing over the keys.
>>
>> I have great faith in Canadians.
>>
>> When faced with having to choose, I believe we will reject the Christian
>> Anglo-European view of our country and embrace who we are today, a
>> multicultural, multifaith society that has, through tears, heartbreak, some
>> smiles, and songs, accepted our shared inheritance; we have seen, heard,
>> and accepted each other for who we are: Canadians, strong and free.
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