Nasty is as nasty does…
An open letter to our beloved American friends and family:
We’re sorry.
Sorry that it has come to this.
Sorry that your leaders are determined to crush our economy, obliterate our sovereignty, and annex our country.
And we’re tired of his constant lying about Canada.
It’s not about fentanyl – that’s a lie that your own statistics prove.
It’s not about trade imbalance – that’s bullshit as well. On a per capita basis, Canadians buy $8,500 in US products vs the $1,200 Americans spend on Canadian products.
Cars? At America’s behest, we have worked for generations to integrate our automobile manufacturing economies.
It’s not about oil. The US pays less than the global benchmark for our safe and secure supply – as compared to the unpredictable and at times hostile practices of other petroleum exporting nations such as Venezuela.
Hey, we’re especially sorry you elected a tyrant and have chosen to let him run around unchecked.
We thought we were the closest of friends.
For Plato, the tyrant is a person driven by unchecked appetites and desires, particularly a lust for power and pleasure. The tyrant indulges in his desires, often neglecting his responsibilities and eventually becoming enslaved by these desires. Plato makes the point that tyranny, both in the individual and the state, arises from a corruption of the soul, a lack of self-control, and an absence of otherness. The tyrant has no true friends because the tyrant sees only himself.
And now your tyrant says we’re “mean and nasty.”
On that one, I just have a few questions...
Was Ken Taylor nasty when he and the Canadian embassy staff risked their lives to hide and help 6 American hostages escape from Iran?
Were the Newfoundlanders in Gander nasty when they housed, fed, and consoled the thousands of stranded travelers on 9/11?
Speaking of the horrors of 9/11, Canada wasn’t attacked… you, our closest friend, you were attacked.
In Afghanistan, were the 158 Canadians who gave their lives and the thousands wounded both physically and psychologically – were they nasty? When the allied nations studied the regions of that country and agreed that Kandahar was the most dangerous – the most likely to cause casualties – and Canada stepped up and said – “We’ll take that one” – were we nasty in that moment?
The tyrant says Canada “doesn’t have the cards,” that we aren’t “viable as a country.”
Well, the list is very long but here’s just a short sample:
This is the country of Vimy Ridge, Joseph Brant, Nellie McClung, Juno Beach, Walter Louie, Marie-Philippe Poulin, Terry Fox, Paul Henderson, Maurice Richard, Billy Bishop, The Medak Pocket, Louis Cyr, Donovan Bailey, Checker Marvin Tomkins, Sydney Crosby (FU Wayne)… oh and Summer McIntosh too!
But betraying a friend – I’d call that nasty.
