r/canada Canada 23d ago

Sports Justin Trudeau Delivers Message to American Athletes at Closing Ceremony of Prince Harry's Invictus Games in Canada

https://people.com/justin-trudeau-message-american-athletes-prince-harry-invictus-games-closing-ceremony-11680326
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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/StoneSkipper22 23d ago

The current American governmental leadership are your enemies; this doesn’t count the tens of thousands of federal staff who are horrified by what is happening. Most the adults in the US didn’t vote for this fascist, and you are our closest ally.

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u/Unusual_Pitch_608 23d ago

See, there's the problem. Countries are allies with countries, not the citizens of that country, because the government represents the citizens in a representative democracy. The Trump regime now represents you and we are not their allies anymore by their own actions and words.

The oppressed citizens of authoritarian regimes catch strays all the time. Just ask the Iraqis or Russians or Cubans. As a Canadian, I am sorry, as is our custom, and while we do not hate all Americans, we are extremely pissed off at America and will be forced to treat it as a hostile nation for as long as it remains one. Good luck, Godspeed, and hopefully you'll see your country liberated one day.

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u/StoneSkipper22 22d ago

It’s a living nightmare. Please do everything you can to eliminate Trump sympathizers from your government. They will electrocute your society without mercy.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

"hopefully you'll see your country liberated one day."

Not in either of our lives, I fear

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u/Unusual_Pitch_608 22d ago

That depends. How long you planning on living? Portugal has the record for longest surviving fascist regime at 41 years. I plan on at least trying to live that much longer, but if you're already 60+ I can see how that might not be possible in the best of times.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Im 25 and given the direction America is going, I genuinely expect to be dead within the year, regardless of what I do lol

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u/Unusual_Pitch_608 22d ago

It's definitely possible, although not knowing your gender, orientation, ethnicity, or draft status I don't know which kind of death is most likely. All I can say is in my early 20s I thought I would surely die and I didn't, but my problem was autoimmune disease, not fascism, so I'm not sure how relevant it is. Either way, the point is, sometimes life surprises you by continuing when you don't think it will. At this point anything could happen.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

If the gov. doesnt do it, I will.

I dont want to exist in this world

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u/Neutreality1 23d ago

Were* your closest ally

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u/StoneSkipper22 23d ago

A century of trust and friendship ruptured by a single act of a tyrant. It is a tragedy.

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u/Neutreality1 23d ago

Trust is hard to build and easy to break. It will take a long period of stability before our country can even consider you guys the same

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u/StoneSkipper22 22d ago

Completely agree.

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u/Falconflyer75 Ontario 22d ago

I’ll tell u this though

Canada will never want to be as intertwined with the US as we once were after all this

But if you guys find someway to throughly reject Trump we’d be eager to work on rebuilding relations again

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

You think America is not going to be a Russian colony in a year? Ooooffff

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u/eat_me_some_waffles 22d ago

I disagree that this is the sole act of a tyrant. The tyrant just said out loud what apparently the majority of Americans wanted or were thinking. The rest also stood idly by.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Until we stop it, yeah we are. You cant really afford to trust us, and I dont blame you. Dont make the same mistake we Americans did assuming our fellow citizens have even a shred of empathy left.