Canadians are well aware how much of our trade is with the United Stares. Most of us have friends or family there. Plenty of Canadians own property or vacation there. Trump is not very popular (<10%, generally people who like his response to a single issue very important to them), but no one thinks being explicitly anti-Trump or anti-American would be a smart public political stance regardless of what people say privately. (A compliment followed by a dis is the usual technique.)
For example, Trudeau: Trump is very smart guy. I don’t often agree with the Wall Street Journal. But the WSJ calked this a very dumb trade war, and it is a dumb trade war…..” (and this followed repeatedly being called Governor, etc.)
The nomination papers have to be filed in about two weeks, on a candidate by candidate basis in each riding.
They would need to find about 200 Quslings in each riding to sign the papers for that riding candidate.
I think it’s likely too late to register the Republican Party with the Chief Electoral Officer, so there would not be any party affiliation for them on the ballot. They would have to get their affiliation known by campaigning.
There are strict limits on how much a candidate can spend in their campaign in a riding, and on how much they can accept in donations. Of course, if they are true Trumpists that will mean nothing and they will break the law, I would predict.
And of course we all know what happened to old Vidkun after the war.
It’s an interesting “feature” of Canadian politics that a separatist party aiming for partition of Canada elects members to the Federal Gov only from within their province…can you say Canadians are “tolerant”
Any we are not talking a few either…33 seats out of 170 for a majority so can easily be balance of power
There has always been an undercurrent of anti-Americanism in Canada. Not always very strong, but always there, in my experience.
Trump unleashed it. Anti-Trumpism is anti-Americanism, and vice versa. No matter how much some people talk about “we’re not booing the US, we’re booing your government”, I don’t believe it. We’re angry with the United States. Full stop. And we don’t care to hear some Americans try to wash their hands by saying they didn’t vote for Trump. The American people chose him as their leader. That’s all that matters.
It took our two countries about a century and a half (starting after your Civil War) to build one of the strongest, most reliable national friendships and alliances in the world.
Personally, I respectfully disagree. I was in the RCN for 32 years and interactions with American exchange officers in Canadian units, or with America military personnel on trips in the US, or with some US tourists in Canada and Europe, have generally been extremely positive.
Having said that, I frigging despise the xenophobic, toxic, ignorant BS of the MAGA set.
So no, I loathe the whole Trump admin and the MAGAts and their supporters and enablers. And I will not trust that country again for a long, long time. But I don’t harbour resentment to US folks except for those who I know did this to the world.
In all seriousness, anyone running for a new pro-annexation party would be in serious danger of being assaulted or murdered. It is quite impossible to overstate how hated they’d be.
