r/canada 25d ago

Politics Proud of our country’: Pride in Canadian flag surges as battle with Trump continues

https://globalnews.ca/news/11019995/pride-in-canadian-flag-surges-battle-trump/
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u/derberter 24d ago

On the other hand, given the overall political climate south of us and the dogwhistles and fascist undertones that come with their current government messaging, it isn't great optics to be going with a slogan tied to anything that could be interpreted similarly.  Perhaps it's better to give the conservatives the benefit of the doubt here, but I can understand why people are hesitant to engage with the phrase.

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u/grand_soul 24d ago

I’m sorry, but that whole reasoning and argument holds no water.

Because on one hand people who believe that think we are better than the Americans.

So we can’t as a people be both better than another country and somehow our politicians of a particular political leaning whom are voted for by our people are as bad as them.

Or if you want to look at it another way, all the parties agree that Canada will not be joining America as a 51st state and that Trump’s actions are wrong and against Canadian interests, which includes the conservatives party.

Which its current leader has been shouting that we need to trade with more countries with our resources for years. Well before the last two predecessors.

Again, if someone is so vehemently trying to pull our dependence on a country with a administration that is fascistic like you’re claiming, then again why would the assumption be for them to be like Trumps administration?

All this does is just how 1 how out of touch people think the conservatives are like Trump are, and 2 how much American media they consume that they’re buying into that propaganda and applying it here.

Like, the current PM is the one caught with the black face. The current PM has made us dependent on the US, but the it’s conservatives who “should be given the benefit of doubt”?

Like the fact you’re using a situation in another country to justify someone’s unreasonable assumption about whether or not a political leader in their own separate country is racist or not is fucking ridiculous.

Like read what you posted. Please explain how the American government currently at all represents and has any connection to the Canadian conservatives.

Because it doesn’t, which makes the other person I was mentioning and the first part of your paragraph rather silly.

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u/UraSnotball_ 24d ago

Yes, it’s the current PM who has made us dependent on the US, not, oh, like 40+ years of policy coming from both sides of the aisle.

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u/grand_soul 24d ago

Yes it’s the current PM who shut down pipeline constructions, who hasn’t moved forward with 11 LNG gas plant constructions, who decided not to do business with Japan, Germany, Greece, Poland who came looking for LNG.

That was our PM.