A Recent Thuppahi Request, April 2025
A RESPONSE From Chris Black in Canada**
Yes, of course, it did. Canadians are very angry about the American
insults and threats to attack us. The Troy party here, who they supported, is a right wing party close in ideology to the US parties (both right wing from our perspective) and was seen as agents of the US. Trump made it clear he supported Poilievre, the Tory leader. Poilievre hobnobbed with Trump — gave the impression he supports Trump. He is regarded by most here as a mini-Trump.
Plus his party voted against the free dental care the liberal and NDP gave us voted against pharmacare, want to privatise the natinal health system, lower taxes for the rich, get rid of environmental controls, want to screw the working class, screw the First Nations, etc etc etc.
There has been a big US driven campaign on youtube and social media
attacking the liberals and supporting what they call “freedom” — claiming we are all oppressed by the present government, and voting for them will make them all rich -and sadly many working class people fell for these lies. But go on youtube and you will find hundreds of videos — all made in the USA.
The truckers strike — so-called a year or two ago — was part of this: an
attempted coup, partly backed by the US.
And NO — this was not some sort of reverse psychology — Trump and the Americans wanted their boy to win — not Carney.
Chris
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A NOTE from Michael Roberts:
My fading memory in old age led me to brand CHRIS as “American”. He is in fact a Canadian.
We interacted way back in the past and I will, now, check the digital world for some of his TPS entries. As I recall, his essays were always penetrating and pertinent.
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ALSO NOTE
Addressing the 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists: Where Fervour Trumps ‘Deep Throats’
EMAIL NOTE From Dr. Kenneth David in USA, 29 April 20125;
“Charts of polls before and after the T statement re absorbing Canada clearly show that the Liberals were in trouble before the statement and that the Liberals shot up in approval after the statement.”
An Extended Set of Comments from Ed Upali located in Canada, 3 May 2025:
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RECENT ELECTION IN CANADA: Judging by Canada’s election results, public opinion was against Canada’s Conservatives, even though a “Trump Take Over” of Canada was opposed by all political parties in Canada, including the Conservatives. Without doubt Canadians trusted the Liberal Party of Canada a bit more than the Conservatives. I would say the current Liberal Party of Canada is a bit more to the right, than the current Labour Party of the UK.
The Liberal Party is led by Mark Carney, a new entrant novice in Canadian politics has degrees from Harvard, and a Ph. D from Oxford. During his storied career, Carney has been the head of Canada’s Central Bank and has also headed the UK’s Central Bank. It is said, as reported in the NY Times, that at the time of Brexit and UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron’s resignation, the British stock market and the pound kept falling and stabilized only after Carney appeared on British TV, to reassure the British money managers and the public that all is well with the British Pound. Without doubt Carney is a proven Crisis Manager.
On the other hand, the Conservatives were led by Pierre Poilievre, a long time leader of the Conservatives, the Canadian Parliamentary opposition. During previous elections, under the former Conservative PM Stephen Harper, Poilievre was known to be in charge of the “dirty tricks” campaigns of the Conservatives. More recently he has refused to get a security clearance – a necessary requirement to be the Prime Minister.
For years Canada has been and still is one of the world’s prosperous democracies as well as being a large producer of oil, gas, hydro power, coal, wood, gold, iron ore, cobalt, and highly sought after rare earth minerals. Therefore, it is not surprising that Donald Trump has plans to take over Canada, a country adjacent to the USA. Within the last 60 days, Trump has imposed heavy tariffs on imports from Canada to the US in spite of an existing free trade agreement, while pushing Canada to become the 51st State of the US.
Trump’s connections to Canada goes back to his father’s time. The Wikipedia says that Donald Trump’s father (Fredrick Trump) immigrated to New York USA in 1885, and later in ~1890s moved to White Horse in Yukon, Canada, It is said that in White Horse, Fredrick T became rich, managing a hotel and a brothel catering to the needs of the gold miners in Yukon.
At least for some time, it looks like Canadians have averted a Trump take over. But there is a good amount of doubt that this may be the last of US attempts to take over Canada, given that Canadians and Americans are also not sure whether Trump will be ruling the US for much more than his 4 current year term.
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