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In Confederation, Canada came into being as an agreement by the founding fathers to work together for our mutual benefit. Our Constitution guaranteed free trade and free passage of goods between and through our provinces so that prosperity would come to all.

It envisioned a central government that could make the ultimate political decision to declare a national project to be in the national interest and thus override regional interests. It recognized that political accountability for these types of decisions was determined by voters at the ballot box.

In many ways, the business deal that was Confederation was a rejection of American expansion. We didn’t want to become Americans and we didn’t want them taking our wealth. And yet, today we are at a place where Americans and their president are laughing at us.

They take our oil for way less than world prices, benefit from the jobs it creates and then sell it back to us at a premium. No need to take over Canada when Canadians proudly screw themselves out of prosperity all on their own.

Something is fundamentally wrong. Our courts, motivated by virtue-signalling and triggered by legal actions funded by foreign interests, routinely override the explicit wishes of our legislatures and have now claimed the powers to overrule the executive decision-making powers of cabinet.

All Canadians should be angry. It is a rebuke of our history and a serious challenge to our future prosperity. But somehow, our elites, our media class, our thought leaders all just roll with it. As the fabric of our nation is torn apart and billions of dollars of current and future prosperity leave our country monthly, the powers that be in Canada spend their time commenting on the American president, their supreme court’s shenanigans and bragging about how much better Canadians are.