Greg Wycliffe - February 07, 2025


This Trade War Proves Canada’s Leaders Are Useless

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Greg Wycliffe
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Trudeau Polyev Don Cherry Trump
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5 minutes

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In the wake of the Trump administration's tariffs and trade war with the United States, many Canadians are asking the question: Will Canada become part of the USA? Is this a good or bad thing, and how does it affect our sense of Canadian identity and Canadian culture?

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00:00:00.000 So a lot of people are asking me about the trade war, the tariffs, are we going to become part of America?
00:00:06.580 I'm not going to lie. Everything about this situation is very sad.
00:00:10.480 Trudeau has successfully crushed the spirit and identity of Canada during his time in office, and we're now facing the consequences of that.
00:00:17.780 Thank you. If Trump and America truly intends to annex us, we are not in a good negotiating position from both the personnel standpoint and just in terms of leverage for getting a good deal.
00:00:28.080 We're helpless to the situation for various reasons, but primarily our lack of cohesion, our lack of a united front to be seen as at least intimidating or making any sense to our negotiating opposition, America.
00:00:42.880 The left is obviously a joke for standing up for Team Canada when it's done nothing but dishonor and dilute the character of Canada over the past nine years, along with sabotaging our economy and natural resource industry.
00:00:55.560 But a lot of people on the right are proving to be equally as pathetic and defeated in terms of absolutely refusing to advocate for any sense of national pride and not seeing any value whatsoever on keeping our independence as a sovereign nation.
00:01:11.460 And I get it. You know, things are awful. Pretty well, every institution has failed us. 0.95
00:01:16.400 There's traitors in the parliament buildings. But some of these attitudes from right wingers are downright traitorous themselves, short-sighted, short-term minded, and quite frankly, selfish. 0.77
00:01:27.180 You know, many baby boomers, right wingers are just looking at this opportunity for lower taxes and a First Amendment, Second Amendment, and cheaply jumping at this opportunity because it makes more sense than anything they've seen over the past nine years. 0.59
00:01:39.600 And first of all, let's just say this phenomenon is a testimony to how much of a failure that the Conservative Party of Canada has been as well for the past decade.
00:01:49.080 They are not countering the dilution and destruction of Canadian culture and identity.
00:01:53.180 If the Conservative Party under Polyev was more exciting, more nationalistic, more brave and visionary, this appetite to join the states among the right wing would not be so strong.
00:02:04.220 We would want our own strong man in charge.
00:02:07.060 And it's now obvious to everyone that we intuitively know Polyev is not that.
00:02:12.360 So this appetite of giving up on our sovereignty and succumbing to American imperialism is understandable.
00:02:18.380 We're in a bad spot. There's no strong man that's there to take the reins.
00:02:23.220 We just want the pain to stop.
00:02:24.840 So we see the shiny grab bag of short-term benefits and that's it.
00:02:29.160 We're off to the races.
00:02:30.420 And although it's understandable, it is so terrifyingly short-term minded and impulsive, I would even call it childish.
00:02:37.020 Almost like a kid about to be lured into a pedophile van with candy, except it's Trump in D.C. waving the Constitution.
00:02:44.920 You know you want it, kid.
00:02:46.220 Ultimately, the whole situation proves how successfully demoralized Canada has become and how defeated the so-called right-wing resistance of nationalists have become when so many Canadian flag-waving patriots have literally picked up an American one at the drop of a hat.
00:03:04.700 It speaks to how few solutions people see on the horizon and how pitiful the vision is for the future of Canada and how weak our sense of Canadian identity and sovereignty is.
00:03:15.140 I mean, are there any Canadian institutions to be proud of right now?
00:03:19.240 We clearly feel on a deep level that the Canadian government and our institutions do not serve the people.
00:03:26.320 It's so bad that we want to throw our institutions in the trash and start from scratch.
00:03:30.960 But I am hoping this will be the absolute low point for Canadian identity in the 21st century, perhaps in all of our history.
00:03:41.220 And this moment, hopefully, will help plant and water the seeds of a true nationalist uprising in the country.
00:03:48.140 The Canadians who came before us conquered the wilderness, built a society despite the distance and the differences, and toiled for generations to create and uphold a beautiful free country called the Dominion of Canada.
00:04:00.260 When's the last time you saw someone on TV talk about Canadian pride that wasn't hockey or maple syrup or some diversity, inclusion, Trudeau version bullshit of nationalism?
00:04:12.220 It was actually Don Cherry standing up for Canadian veterans right before he got fired, if you're curious what the answer was.
00:04:18.960 But that's the whole problem.
00:04:20.360 We've completely lost track of who we are and what we're about.
00:04:24.940 And we need to change that.
00:04:26.980 And we need to call it the institutions who will punish and persecute us for simply trying to champion who we truly are and what we truly are about.
00:04:36.620 There's certainly a vacuum of leadership across the political landscape in Canada when it comes to leadership.
00:04:44.800 It's the vacuum of leadership.
00:04:46.140 And I don't think most Canadians really feel anything strong in their hearts about any of these empty suits in Canada.
00:04:52.980 So where do we start?
00:04:54.520 But aside from learning more about our own history and championing it and starting to truly interrogate and answer the question of what a Canadian is and who the Canadian people are and what we're about,
00:05:07.180 aside from all that, we need to reject political correctness.
00:05:10.120 We need to demand accountability in Ottawa and from our corrupt institutions that are rife with foreign interference.
00:05:17.320 And if Canadians want to live in a better country, then Canadians need to demand higher standards for themselves.
00:05:24.520 Starts with you.
00:05:26.460 So, thanks for watching.
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00:05:30.120 And we'll see you in the next one.