Gosh, we cats sure hope our lights don't go out. In response to Benedict Donald's insane tariffs on Canada, Premier Doug Ford of Ontario — not exactly a lefty anti-Trumper — has talked about cutting electricity to Minnesota, Michigan, and New York. (Come on, Doug, two of us voted for Harris-Walz last November.)
Meanwhile, Prime-Minister-For-a-Few-More-Days Justin Trudeau gave a stern speech today, and yes, he went there: "What [Trump] wants to see if a total collapse of the Canadian economy because that will make it easier to annex us," he said. "That is never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state."
(If you watch the whole speech at the link, you'll also hear Justin address Trump directly — "Donald, this is a very dumb thing to do." Handy reminder that, according to Mary Trump, her uncle hates it when people call him "Donald.")
The bottom line? "Donald" wants Canada's natural resources. He also wants to give his pal Putin a back door to the Arctic. Sounds a lot like 1938, doesn't it? Canada is Austria — but there's no Switzerland to flee to, like the Von Trapp family did by climbing ev'ry mountain.
Of course, as it always happens with Trump, it seems he's started to waffle. Was it Trudeau's pledge to enact retaliatory tariffs? (Mexico and China said so, too.) Was it the plunging stock market? The SAQ pulling US wines and liquors off its shelves? (Probably not.) Or maybe Trump saw Liberal leader-in-waiting Mark Carney's statement today: "We didn't ask for this fight, but Canadians are united and determined. In trade, as in hockey, we will win." Ha ha! Well played, on both counts.
We know why the Trumpsters are dismantling the federal government, and why the Republicans are going along — it's the fulfillment of Grover Norquist's long-held right-wing dream of strangling it in the bathtub. But we can't figure out why Benedict Donald and the GOP are willing to tank the US economy as well. Can anyone explain? We cats HISS.
(IMAGE: Aislin/Terry Mosher, The Montreal Gazette)
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