Charlie Angus
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to undermine our sovereignty, our nationhood, our birthright, and in such a dismissive fashion, because his boss has never, ever once backed off his belief that he can break us as a country.
So what it's done is it's pissed people off.
And obviously, the impacts are going to be felt by
The laid-off workers in Kentucky, the bourbon distilleries, the poor folk in Las Vegas and Florida who've lost tourism dollars, Canadians will never, ever, ever spend money on anything America.
Every time Pete Hoekstra opens his mouth, it reminds us to hold that boycott.
It's a significant shift.
Again, Canada has always been the little brother to the great alliance that started 81 years ago to fight fascism.
That's what brought Canada and the US together.
We were pretty suspicious of each other before that.
And so you see the United States walked on this Canada-US peace board, defense board that had been put in place back in the days when we were trying to defend the coast from the U-boats and the Nazis and other possible threats and the Japanese on the Pacific coast.
But when you see us shifting away in such a dramatic fashion, it's sending a really clear message.
The decision by Canada to purchase the Swedish Global Eye surveillance planes is about us defending the Arctic, our sovereignty,
and who are we defending it from we're defending it from obviously russia but now we're also defending it from the united states you know we uh made a very clear commitment to greenland and denmark that we would be there for them we know that the threat to the arctic is against us so far we haven't seen the russians there but we know
that donald trump has been putting more and more pressure there so the move with the swedes is a big step and it signals this wild change that's happened just in the last year of canada now aligning with nordic countries finland sweden norway these these are the people that we're now seeing as our allies because we now see a threat on the border
Well, we're seeing things that we couldn't have even imagined before, like open talk about alliance with the European Union.
Now, I've been to the European Union.
I've met with them.
They're a lot more bureaucratic than Canadians are.
I think it would drive us nuts to be in the EU.
I'm just saying that to all our Canadian viewers.