Oh Canada!

Back in the day, Gordon sang. . .” So they looked to the future and what did they see? They saw an iron road running from the sea. . . up the St. Lawrence, all the way to Gasp’e, swinging our hammers and drawing our pay. Look away, said they, all across this mighty land, from the eastern shore to the western strand” . . . Along came Joni, singing . . .”On the back of a cartoon coaster, in a blue TV screen light, I drew a map of Canada. . . Oh, Canada!” And Neil, 1970, singing about the trouble being generated across the border, in America, and on the side of the world, Vietnam, in the 1960’s. . . “Blue blue windows behind the stars, yellow moon on the rise. . . big birds flying across the skies, throwing shadows on our eyes.” In 2026, donald trump has been trying to pull the wool over Mark Carney’s eyes, trying to cover the Canadian Prime Minister’s vision with maga madness, trying to pull his maralago tricks on the Canadian PM, as if he could fool a leader who had, as Mark Carney told the Europeans recently, “ran the Bank of Canada during the financial crisis, and ran the bank of England during Brexit” The present occupant of the oval was trying to throw his weight around to get Mark Carney to tow the line for trump’s bull***t hegemony. But now the Canadian leader has forced into a captive position in which donald has received a message, something like. . . do not pass go; do not collect 200 dollars, American or otherwise. . . Instead, Mark Carney went to the Europeans and explained. “Canada did not impose the first tariff, the second tariff, the third, the fourth 5th, the sixth or seventh tariffs. Every single tariff in this confrontation was initiated by U.S. . . . . .Canada supplies to the US 60% of its crude oil, 98% of electricity on the borders, 73% potash for agricultural fertilizer, 87% of softwood lumber, 67% of our nickel for defense and 100% of the fresh water to the Great Lakes.

When a journalist asked, “Can Canada win this?”. . . speaking of trump’s bully tactics for controlling Canada, Mark Carney answered. “We already have.” As for the bully across the border, the king of maralago. . . this American writer says: Read ‘em and weep, donald! You’ve been outdrawn in the shootout at the Brussels corral. Do not pass Go; do not collect anything! Paraphrasing Gordon Lightfoot’s song from back in the day. . . “So Mark looked to the future and what did he see? A Canadian nation, glorious and free! Oh Canada, glorious and free! Glass half-Full