Reality angers Canadians

What does it mean to be Canadian?  That is one of the most often asked questions in Canada.  You would think after 159 years as a country that would be an easy question to answer but it is not.  Part of the problem is that the country has changed.  The Canadians who carved a country out of a frozen wilderness and punched above their weight in 2 world wars bear little relationship to the people who occupy Canada now.

Canadians didn’t just lose their identity they destroyed it without replacing it with anything other than a passport.  So, my first question is difficult for Canadian passport holders.  The only thing they all agree on is that Canadians are not Americans.  It is a little odd to define yourself by identifying what you are not, but that statement is objectively True.  Canadians look like Americans and sound like Americans, but they are definitely not American.

Americans are extremely independent while Canadians are wholly dependent on government.  Part of that fierce independence in the US is that Americans don’t care what the rest of the world thinks about them.  That is why they don’t mind airing their dirty laundry in public.  When there is a problem Americans fight about it opening so the whole world can see.  Conversely Canadians continually obsess over how others see them.  Problems are never discussed to preserve the fairy tale illusion of the Canadian utopia.

When any Canadian dares to discuss a problem, the Maple Maoists shut down the conversation by pointing to an international poll that ranks Canada high on some metric.  To them the fact that people who don’t live in Canada and know very little about the country have a favorable opinion of Canada is proof we don’t have a problem.  How is that even a data point?  Let alone the only data point that matters.

The fact is that Canada has a lot of problems even if Canadians refuse to acknowledge them.  Our economy always underperforms.

One in four Canadian manufacturers have either moved their operation to the U.S. or are planning to do so, according to a new survey from KPMG Canada.

The courts protect the government not the citizens.

The Lich-Barber prosecution fits that pattern. It tells citizens that dissent is permitted only when it is polite, brief, powerless, and useful to the governing narrative. 

What’s happening here is not proportional. It is selective, political, and childishly vindictive. It was designed to make a very public example out of people whose real offence was not mischief, but disobedience.

And China uses criminal networks to control important Canadian infrastructure.

Drug traffickers use the ports to bring fentanyl precursors and cocaine in and to ship methamphetamine out to premium markets like Australia. Organized crime has infiltrated the port workforce itself, giving networks the insider access to contaminate containers and time shipments around enforcement. And hostile states — China foremost among them in McGregor’s analysis — along with sanctioned regimes such as Iran, per the advisories the essay cites, exploit the same seams for commercial intelligence collection, sanctions evasion and strategic positioning

All while our politicians behave like royalty, completely unconcerned about the welfare of the peasants they tax.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s delegation spent nearly $160,000 on in-flight catering during a single overseas trip, according to government records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, prompting renewed criticism over government travel spending.

The records show Carney and a 55-member entourage spent $159,800 on meals during a week-long trip to Athens, Abu Dhabi, Johannesburg and the Canary Islands in November 2025.

That amounts to roughly $2,850 per passenger.

“Carney spent more money on airplane food during one trip than the average family will spend on groceries in almost a decade,” said Franco Terrazzano, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s federal director.

According to the CTF, Carney spent nearly $1 million on in-flight catering across 14 flights during his first year as prime minister.

Problems and corrupt politicians don’t just exist in Canada they thrive in Canada because Canadians refuse to do anything about it.  Canadians would rather sink into despair than to have uncomfortable conversations.  That is why Donald Trump and Alberta Independence trigger Canadians so badly.

Donald Trump is prone to bombastic statements but there is always a grain of truth beneath his bluster.  The truth hurts.  Canadians hate when Trump speaks about Canada because they know he is right but are loath to admit it.  The same can be said about Alberta independence and it explains why the reaction to Alberta independence is far different than the reaction to Quebec independence.

Quebec independence is based on Quebec being a distinct society.  Quebecers don’t see anything wrong with Canada they just want to go it alone.  They Quebec referendum did not force Canadians to have any uncomfortable conversations, so Canadians showered Quebecers with love to convince them to stay.  Conversely The Alberta referendum has been met with vitriol and hate.

It can be argued that Alberta is also a distinct society but that is not what drives Alberta independence.  Albertans are just tired of Canada’s shit.  There is no way to convince Albertans to stay without acknowledging the problems and producing concrete plans to fix them.  Albertans are forcing Canadians to look in the mirror and Canadians hate them for it.