It is said that starting your day with prayer, quiet time, or listening to positive talk radio can set a good tone for the rest of your day. I experienced this firsthand on Wednesday when I tuned in to a show that I enjoy listening to in the early hours.
The show, “Red Eye Radio,” hosted by Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, who are ardent supporters of Trump, was especially engaging leading up to the recent election. They had a great time critiquing the Harris campaign and the media figures who backed her.
Living in Michigan, I keep an eye on the happenings across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, still a part of Canada and a foreign country. While the Trump administration seems to be working at a rapid pace, I am pretty sure they have not yet managed to acquire Canada.
I just wrote about how Ontario Premier Doug Ford soiled himself the other day right here (Ontario, Canada Premier Doug Ford Wants to Add a 25% Surcharge on Electricity to the United States):
Ontario Premier Doug Ford at a press conference that he would move forward with a 25% surcharge on electricity exports to three US states starting Monday, warning that he will would turn off access if the United States adds new tariffs on Canadian goods.
“If the United States escalates, I will not hesitate to shut the electricity off completely,” Ford told reporters. “Believe me when I say I do not want to do this, I feel terrible for the American people, because it’s not the American people who started this trade war. It’s one person who’s responsible. That’s President Trump.”
Ford on Monday said the 25% surcharge “will cost families and businesses” in New York, Minnesota and Michigan and add around “$100 per month to the bills of hardworking Americans.”
When I originally heard about this plan on my show last week, I Googled to see how much, if any, of the electricity we get is from Windsor. The answer was not CLEAR.
Instead, that power flows through Michigan and into several other states before returning to Canada as part of the Eastern Interconnection. That’s an electrical grid that reaches central Canada and states east of the Rocky Mountains.
Doug sounds like a fun guy, doesn’t he?
However, that was not what piqued my interest with the gentlemen at “Red Eye Radio” today, but them going past the overall topic of Canada becoming part of the United States, and their spot-on analysis of why this is not a good idea.
I have been leaning in the same direction on this, but I was thinking more on an economic level because Canada has Obamacare on steroids. The United States has more than enough debt that we have incurred on our own, so taking on Canada, along with their entitlement programs with the additional land, sounds like a bit of a problem. However, the point that Gary and Eric were talking about today is something I have not heard anywhere else, and it made perfect sense.
If Canada and its provinces become part of the United States of America, Republicans would probably never win the White House and/or Congress again. Now, I know some of my friends here in the deep blue state of Michigan would probably fight that notion, and say that if Canadians became Americans, they would just become more conservative.
I don’t think that is the route that would necessarily happen. I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t.
So, I went ahead and just took a look at some of the past elections that formed Parliament the past couple cycles to see what, if any, trends there were.
The Liberal Party, or the party of now-former Canadian Prime Minister and Castro wannabe Justin Trudeau, won the majority vote in 2015 by 54 percent, the 2019 election by 46 percent, and the 2021 vote by 47 percent. In the 2015 vote, Trudeau and his cronies passed the threshold to form a government just of their party members, but in the 2019 and 2021 contests, they needed a little help to form a government.
Shame that the 2021 election was before Trudeau and his schmucks got rolling over truckers in Canada in 2022, which I wrote about here: Two Weeks Into the Trucker Protest in Canada, They Show Fighting for Freedom Is Sexy Again. Possibly, they would have thrown his behind out then.
Yet, back to Eric and Gary’s point, that if we absorbed Canada into the United States, that would change the electoral college process. So, if you now made tens of millions of people–who mostly vote for the closest equivalent to Democrats in the United States–citizens, how much harder is it for anybody with an “R” after his or her name to get to 271 electoral votes to win the White House? Then there’s the problem of dividing Congress up in the House of Representatives and/or making provinces into states with two senators.
You can just imagine the Democrats jumping for joy at the prospect of this. How would that make America great again?
What a headache.
Don’t get me wrong, in my younger days, I enjoyed a good Molson Bradoor, and I thoroughly enjoyed my visits to our neighbors to the east (Detroit is my location) and their hospitality.
Canadians are a wonderful bunch of folks, unless you’re talking smack about their favorite hockey team, which I generally tried to avoid, so I have nothing against our “cousins” next door. People who can ice skate and fight are not to be messed with, in my opinion.
However, I draw the line at letting the country go deep blue forever, and changing the political map of the United States of America. I believe it is the wrong direction.
Trump and his team have some pretty big goals right now, and some of these ideas have never been seriously considered but talked about to death. Like getting rid of the Department of Education (see Linda McMahon: Mass Layoffs at Education Department Are Just the First Step to Returning Power to Parents).
Let’s get those goals accomplished first.
