In the last few weeks, I have heard about a plan to spend over a billion dollars on cleaning up the border. I just kind of brushed that off as an internet rumour. Then I heard that when Trudeau met with the premiers, one of the main items that were discussed was the border.

It kind of sounded like Trudeau was taking Trump’s stated Tariff reason at face value and complying with this request to clean up the border.

However, at that time, I wasn’t sure if the Canadian government believed we really brought these tariffs on ourselves and needed to do what Trump said or if they were just pretending to.

You know kind of like play acting. Like, “Look we’re cleaning up the border. Look. We’re really doing it. See. Look.”

Then a story broke today which made me realize that things are going in a very unhealthy direction.

It appears that there are certain elements in the Canadian government who are drinking the tariff Cool-Aid, believing that we are at fault here and should comply to ward off the tariffs.

Here’s the problem with concessions.

Concessions were OK during the long period where we existed side by side peacefully and traded as allies and as equals.

This is a new environment. In this new environment the US President Elect feels comfortable calling Canada a state and calling the Prime Minister a governor.

My concern is that we concede now, we will get into a pattern where we start taking orders from Trump.

If the border is a mess, by all means clean it up.

If there are too many drugs that are killing people, by all means clean it up.

However, making concessions when you don’t even know if the person you are conceding to is telling the truth is really not the road I want Canada to go down right now.

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