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akurjata.ca • 23 days ago

Holy. Angus Reid survey finds more Canadians are following Trump tariff threats "very closely" than those who said they were doing same for COVID-19.

Pride in Canada also up 10 points

https://angusreid.org/pride-in-canada-tariff-trump/

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astill73.bsky.social•23 days ago

📌

audreymckinnon.bsky.social•23 days ago

Nice... optimism points +5

kengilmore.bsky.social•23 days ago

With luck it will sink the electoral chances of the odious Trump-worshipping Pierre Poilievre

guerric.bsky.social•22 days ago

I'm biting my nails at the mixed polling results on this. Ekos and Main Street reporting big swings against him, but the rest reporting more modest dips. I hope it keeps dipping either way.

brickbubble.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yes! Time to take back our Canadian flag!

akurjata.ca•23 days ago

91 per cent of Canadians want to reduce our country's reliance on the United States.

Just 59 per cent want to try to repair the relationship.

This has the potential to be a massive shift.

https://angusreid.org/pride-in-canada-tariff-trump/

luxenjoyer.com•23 days ago

You can do both but you should definitely do that first one.

akurjata.ca•23 days ago

I will just say, anecdotally, I have had more than one person tell me that we may as well just pursue closer relationships with China given we apparently no longer have shared values with the U.S. Not sure that attitude will last but gives a sense of the temperature

kimista.bsky.social•23 days ago

I really hope that's where this shit takes Australia at least.

akurjata.ca•23 days ago

Geezus, *QUEBEC* is expressing a 45 per cent "deep emotional attachment" to Canada

Manitobans, meanwhile have decreased in likelihood to answer that question

adamboyle.bsky.social•23 days ago

They just asked the wrong question. It should have said “how strong is your attachment to the nation of Quebec” and the numbers would have been enormous.

Same outcome. America would get entangled in a Afghanistan like never ending insurgent nightmare in Quebec

jordantcarlson.bsky.social•23 days ago

I'm really curious what's going on in Manitoba here?

akurjata.ca•23 days ago

I mean, it's apparently statistically insignificant but yeah

jordantcarlson.bsky.social•23 days ago

Still, especially compared to BC, ON, QC, and the Atlantic, it feels like an outlier. (Tbh, I'm also surprised AB and SK went up, but that is likely a firm "populations not governments" effect)

akurjata.ca•23 days ago

Trump tariff 'made something snap in us' - many Canadians see US rift beyond repair

"There is something that has been irrevocably broken"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qw9y94w2vo

akurjata.ca•23 days ago

Anyways here's some baby otters playing in the snow https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6636206

jmcelroy.bsky.social•23 days ago

wonder how much of it is the tariffs and how much of it is the “I think your country should be eliminated, I’m going to say that multiple times and emphasize that I’m not joking, Canadians shouldn’t exist as a nation” thing

seems like one would provoke more emotion

nonbinary.computer•23 days ago

It's both. Like the tariffs would be incredibly destructive and then the obvious bullshit justification and imperialist rhetoric made it clear that we couldn't possibly concede on anything substantial or we'd just lose more sovereignty.

halfbakedrhymes.com•23 days ago

If we invade Canada, please allow defectors 🫶

tomhawthorn.bsky.social•23 days ago

You've got it, Justin. No one here wants to be the 51st State other than a handful of Alberta libertarians who really should just move south.

shanathalas.bsky.social•22 days ago

I think most of us felt so deeply insulted and threatened by the term “51st State”.

akurjata.ca•23 days ago

oh, yeah, I am 100 per cent certain this is about the repeated "we're gonna take over your country, you shouldn't exist" more than it is about "we're gonna tariff your goods"

orionkidder.bsky.social•23 days ago

I think, 100% serious, Trump has dementia, which experts told us would make him essentially more Trumpy: impulsive, impatient, angry, *desperate* for attention. He got laughs on his "51st state" stuff, and now it's an obsession that he rationalizes with ever tiny scrap of BS he can spin.

kagiboran.bsky.social•23 days ago

It was definitely the two of them combined that produced this effect, imo

annemurphy1969.bsky.social•23 days ago

I was going to do a long drawn out post but I'll just summarize it, fuck America

annest.bsky.social•23 days ago

When your closest ally tears up a trade deal that they negotiated, threatens tariffs based on a false premise,and continually hints at annexing your country, trust is gone. When Trump is gone, we may not retain trust in a country that has allowed this dangerous man to be president- again.

cakemonster4cake.bsky.social•23 days ago

I suspect that Canadians are feeling sort of a bit, erm, BETRAYED!

rufflandings.bsky.social•23 days ago

The pollsters describe the Manitoba shift as “statistically not at all”, so I’m going with the 15% positive shift in Quebec as the headline 😳

thesharkqueen.com•23 days ago

Oh damn

orionkidder.bsky.social•23 days ago

Good lord. China is much worse on all these things. They've been an oligarchical dictatorship under Xi for years. Why do people want that more than creating ties to Europe?

013enterprises.bsky.social•23 days ago

I honestly want us as Canada to make forays into a closer bond with the EU, possibly even *joining it*. Imagine passport free travel through much of Europe and the increased quality of life as a result of their standards.

kagiboran.bsky.social•23 days ago

I’ve heard “we need to trade with absolutely everyone regardless of whether we like them because our biggest trading partner and only neighbour is threatening our sovereignty”

And yeah, tbh, hard to argue with that

lazylazerbeam.bsky.social•23 days ago

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