Better Now Than Later

Trump didn't create this mess in Canada. He merely poked his finger into the middle of it to expose what was already festering under the surface.

If Canada wasn't already a quasi-failed state, this wouldn't have triggered a unity crisis -- and there would probably never have…

— Julius Ruechel (@JuliusRuechel) January 18, 2025

… been a brewing tariff war, nor threats of annexation. Our weakness is self-inflicted. Trump exposed it for the world to see.

The hysteria about Trump bullying Canada is theatre used by our political classes to evade responsibility for what they have done to their own people over the last 9 years, and beyond.

The real villain is not Trump, it's our own ruling class. In many ways we should be grateful to him for ripping off the band-aid to show the world how broken this country is.

His "bullying" may not be the intervention Canada wants, but it is the intervention Canada desperately needed to force Canada to look in the mirror and confront what it has become.

Fix it, or lose it. Better now than later when we have even less good options left.